[Myra] does not choose this purpose to start out with—it’s a path made by the omnipresent superficiality of popular culture, Twelve-Step language and rituals, and the lack of adult mentorship in her life.
Q&A with Lynne Thompson, author of Blue on a Blue Palette
Q&A with JoAnne McFarland, author of American Graphic
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Q&A with KB Brookins, author of Pretty
"All the books that I’ve written so far are iterations of the same person learning more about what it means to be a Black trans person."
Q&A with Ariana Benson, author of Black Pastoral
"...When you’re urban or even in a space like a suburban neighborhood you can understand or feel where your world ends, right?... The field to me has presented a place of expanse. Freedom."
Q&A with Bruna Dantas Lobato, author of Blue Light Hours
"Translation, much like writing, is a relational art."
Q&A with Jess Yuan, author of Slow Render
It’s interesting to think about moving through the sections of the book like moving through different rooms in a building
Q&A with Sarah Ghazal Ali, author of Theophanies
The poems are built on a foundation of refusal — to choose between two truths
Q&A with Aozora Brockman, author of “Light and Moon”
As a child I often felt that there was magic happening all around me, for it was magical to witness the way a seed I planted could grow into a sprawling summer squash plant blooming with yellow crooknecks, and for a summer sunrise to stain a puddle red-orange.
