Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. After studying art as an undergraduate at Yale University, she pursued a career as a painter for several years before turning to fiction writing at age 30…
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Featured Author Dr. Adam Prince Interviewed by Emily Biggs
/Writer and Professor, Dr. Adam Prince was born and raised in Southern California; he has since lived in New York, South Korea, Arkansas, Nicaragua, Knoxville, Baltimore, and Charleston, Illinois. He received his B.A. from Vassar College, his M.F.A from the University of Arkansas, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee.
Read MoreInterview with Eugene Platt by Sue Walker
/A Charleston, SC native, Eugene Platt has given over 100 public readings of his work across the nation. After graduating from St. Andrew’s Parish High School, Eugene served three years in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper and chaplain’s assistant. He earned a B.A. at the University of South Carolina and did graduate study at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. He is an elected member of the James Island Public Service District Commission, having served since 1993. Some of his poems have been choreographed and in 2002 he was appointed the first Poet Laureate of the Town of James Island.
Read MoreInterview with Jaime Quattro by Amy Patterson
/Interview with Jamie Quatro: A contributing editor at Oxford American, Quatro’s work has appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Her stories are anthologized in the O.Henry Prize Stories 2013, The Story and Its Writer, and the 2018 Pushcart Prize Anthology.
Read MoreInterview with Carlos Dews by Juan Villacreces
/Carlos Dews (1963-), born in Nacogdoches, Texas, holds an M.A. and Ph.D in American Literature (University of Minnesota) and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing (The New School). He is a noted scholar of American novelist Carson McCullers, having written a dissertation on and later edited her autobiography, published as Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers (1999).
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