Critics / Writers

Carol Becker is Professor of the Arts and Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts. She is the author of numerous articles and several...

Lucy Ives is the author of the novel Impossible Views of the World, published by Penguin Press. Her writing has appeared in Art in America,...

Nuar Alsadir is a poet, writer, and psychoanalyst. This is part two of her interview, part one is here. She is the author of the...

Chavisa Woods is interviewed here about her writing project, 100 Things, which also uses the hashtag #sexismfuckingsucks. She was interviewed previously about her book, Things...

Nuar Alsadir is a poet, writer, and psychoanalyst. This is part one of her interview, part two is here. She is the author of the...

Jason Schneiderman is the author of Primary Source, winner of the 2016 Benjamin Saltman Award; Sublimation Point, a Stahlecker Selection from Four Way Books; and Striking Surface, winner of the 2009 Richard Snyder...

Shane McCrae is the author of six full-length books of poetry—most recently, The Gilded Auction Block, which will be published by Farrar, Straus and...

Jeff Dolven teaches poetry and poetics at Princeton University. He is the author of two books of criticism, Senses of Style (2018) and Scenes...

Ramona Austin has over three decades of professional experience in the arts and arts education. Currently Ms. Austin is Senior Curator for the Baron and...

Bertie Brandes grew up in London and studied English. She started her writing career with a column for VICE and after graduating became their...

Sarah Schulman is a playwright novelist, nonfiction writer, screenwriter, journalist and AIDS historian. This is the second interview with Sarah Schulman, the first one...

Anastacia-Renee is Civic Poet of Seattle and former 2015-2017 Poet-in-Residence at Hugo House. She is the author of four books: Forget It (Black Radish Books), (v.), (Gramma Press), Answer(Me) (Argus Press), and 26 (Dancing Girl Press), and...

Will Dowd is a writer and artist based outside Boston. Areas of Fog, published by Etruscan Press, is his debut collection of essays. Born and raised in Braintree,...

Patricia Spears Jones is an African American poet and playwright winner of the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets and Writers.  She is author...

Chavisa was interviewed previously this year abut her recent book, and that interview is here. Chavisa Woods is the author of three books o fiction:...