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The PEN Ten: An Interview with Grace E. Lavery

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By: Saeri Plagmann | June 1, 2023

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

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By: Donica Bettanin | May 22, 2023

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

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By: Rachel Powers | May 11, 2023

“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

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By: Lili Stern | May 4, 2023

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

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By: TC. Mann | April 27, 2023

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

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Victor LaValle

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By: Jared Jackson | April 13, 2023

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

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By: Donica Bettanin | April 6, 2023

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

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By: Caits Meissner | April 4, 2023

I’d rather tend toward over-sharing than under-sharing. I’d rather tend toward more understanding than less. More

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The PEN Ten: An Interview with Sunu Chandy

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By: Hannah Waltz | March 31, 2023

I hope that this book helps to reflect that as LGBTQIA+ people, and as women, and as people of color, we must have a society where we can control… More

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Gina Chung

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By: Donica Bettanin | March 30, 2023

I really enjoy writing about animals in particular because they’re so much more honest than we are about what they need and want, and they have a completely different… More

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