Interviews | Negative Capability Press
Fred Bassett, Ph.D., Emory University, is a prolific poet and novelist, whose work appeared in Negative Capability 33 and 34. His well-crafted poems have appeared in more than eighty literary journals…
Lee Durkee was born in Hawaii and raised in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He is the author of the novels Rides of the Midway and The Last Taxi Driver…
Poet, editor, critic, and professor Stephen Yenser is the author of three poetry collections: Stone Fruit (2016), Blue Guide (2006), and The Fire in All Things (1993)…
Will Kimbrough is a multi-talented, prolific singer-songwriter, guitarist, mandolinist, and record producer for numerous artists, with over 20 album…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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).
Nathan Poole is the author of two books of fiction, Father Brother Keeper a collection of stories selected by Edith Pearlman for the Mary McCarthy Prize and long listed for the Frank O’Connor Award, and Pathkiller as the Holy Ghost selected by Benjamin Percy as the winner of the Quarterly West Novella Contest.
Kimberly Kruge is a poet and translator based in Mexico. She is a lifelong poet; her first publication appeared in an anthology of children’s poetry, and she began to be awarded for her work as an adolescent. Her recent publications include poems in either English or Spanish…
Stephen Graham Jones is the author of sixteen novels, six story collections, and, so far, one comic book. His areas of interest, aside from fiction writing, are horror, science fiction, fantasy, film, comic books, pop culture, technology, and American Indian Studies. Dr. Jones earned his BA in English and Philosophy from Texas Tech University…
Peter Grandbois is a writer, poet and playwright, who teaches English and Narrative Non-fiction Writing at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Grandbois is the author of eight books. His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in…