Kirsten Reneau
On Writing Prompts, Experimental Forms in Essays, the Importance of Observation, and Her Debut Essay Collection, ‘Sensitive Creatures’
Conversations with writers and editors about what matters in the industry.
On Writing Prompts, Experimental Forms in Essays, the Importance of Observation, and Her Debut Essay Collection, ‘Sensitive Creatures’
On Writing a Pandemic Novel, Running a Small Press, What It Means to Be a Literary Citizen, and Her Debut Novel ‘Under a Neon Sun’
On How Many Red Herrings Are Too Many, Unconventional Paths to Book Publication, and Her Novel ‘Home Is Where the Bodies Are’
On Writing Authentic Sex, Banging Out Drafts, The Privilege of Being Unemployed, and Her Debut Novel ‘A Good Happy Girl’
On Starting Where it Hurts Most, Writing About the Death of a Spouse, Creative Constraints for Revision, and Her Debut Memoir ‘Here After’
On Restraint-Based Writing, Setting Rules, How a Mother Should Be, and Her Novel ‘Contradiction Days’
On Choosing Your Uncertainties, the Different Stages of “Finished” and her debut story collection ‘A Kind of Madness’
On Self-Portrait as a Portal to Exploring Polyamory and Unconventional Love Stories
On Diaspora, Grief, and Writing About Living Family, and on Her Memoir ‘The Translator’s Daughter’
On Writing a Novel Together, Challenging Dominant Narratives of Otherness With Pure Joy, and How Writing Is Informed by Place
On Not Caring if You’re Relevant, Turning Your Interests Into Art, Teacher Troubles, and His Debut Essay Collection ‘Holy American Burnout!’
On the Ancient Problems of Women, Writing Monstrous Men, and Her Novel ‘Fruit of the Dead’