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
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Sunu Chandy
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
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
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Monica Youn
The poem doesn’t live for me until it reaches the mind of the reader, as if the poem is a musical composition and the reader is both the musician… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with De’Shawn Charles Winslow
I wanted to show what lengths people would go to just to conceal truths: a child’s queerness, an addiction, hypocrisy. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Lamya H
Finding queer Muslim community taught me it was possible to live. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Isabel Waidner
Sterling Karat Gold deliberately blurs conventional boundaries between what counts as real and as imagined. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Franny Choi
Only good long-form writing can hold you in contact with someone else’s interiority, their motivations, their makeup, for hours or days or weeks. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Saket Soni
Only good long-form writing can hold you in contact with someone else’s interiority, their motivations, their makeup, for hours or days or weeks. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Oindrila Mukherjee
No matter where you live or where you grew up or where you were issued a passport, in the end we all experience the same emotions. My wish for… More