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
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
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
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