The PEN Ten: An Interview with Stella Nyanzi
My multiple identities empower me to fashion my writing into an effective weapon fighting against injustices meted out by holders of abusive power onto underprivileged groups in society. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Grace E. Lavery
My work is to try to understand the methods of self-knowing and self-becoming that trans people have used for a century and a half. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Jane Wong
I think often of my familial ancestors and what trickled into me – were they poets too? More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Dareen Tatour
“From the moment the soldiers entered my house and took me, I felt that poetry was waiting for me." More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Emma Ramadan
The myth that “translations don’t sell” and that the average reader will turn their nose up at a book if they see it is a translation has been disproven… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Tyriek White
It is why there is so much investment, politically and even historically, in the erasure of books by certain communities or voices. Writing about alternate paths forward can create… More
Banned in the USA Spotlight: Mike Curato
Mike Curato's Flamer was tied for the most banned book in the fall of 2022 in PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans. He tells PEN America why he… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Victor LaValle
What are the stories—the myths—that we begin to learn from our earliest days? And how is the relation of that history shaped by the people who share it? More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Rachel Heng
The work of fiction is to evoke emotion, to pose a certain set of questions and contradictions, to create a system of meaning through the building of a world… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Rushi Vyas
I’d rather tend toward over-sharing than under-sharing. I’d rather tend toward more understanding than less. More
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