Ten Questions

“In the intimacy of the book, I feel very vulnerable.” —Zachary Pace, author of I Sing to Use the Waiting: A Collection of Essays About the Women Singers Who’ve Made Me Who I Am

“Start with what interests you, and keep going.” —Cynthia Zarin, author of Inverno

“Look for the agents and editors who share your vision for the work and trust them.” —Jennifer Savran Kelly, author of Endpapers

“I struggled with the urge to tame my voice.” —James W. Jennings, author of Wings of Red

“It’s okay for you to reveal more of yourself in your poetry.” —Subhaga Crystal Bacon

“Write toward what you want to discover.” —Jim Redmond, author of Because You Previously Liked or Played

“Have fun. Make friends.” —Curtis Chin, author of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

“I felt that I knew the characters deeply after years of thinking about these stories.” —Shannon Sanders, author of Company

“For me, giving language to something, finding a name for it, enacts a kind of metabolic process.” —Cintia Santana, author of The Disordered Alphabet

“I tend to binge-write.” —Myriam Gurba, author of Creep: Accusations and Confessions

“Don’t trap yourself into false models of production and worth.” —Edgar Kunz, author of Fixer