Interviews & Features
PEN America produces a breadth of interviews and features throughout the year.
Roxane Gay Interview
Roxane Gay spoke to PEN America about Opinions, avoiding being pigeonholed, and more. More
Laurie Halse Anderson: Speaking for the Voiceless
Laurie Halse Anderson’s celebrated young adult novel Speak was an immediate target for censors. We talked to Anderson about the current book banning crisis. More
Raj Tawney | The PEN Ten Interview
Food has remained a consistent thread since childhood and I realized that it was used in my family as a powerful tool to help navigate unknown cultures. More
Elisabeth Houston | The PEN Ten Interview
I suppose I’m driven to put my work out in the world precisely because of the desperate state of the world. More
Learning Together: How One Family Is Navigating Life in Florida
Abigail Frank left homeschool and church behind to reflect her values. More
Safiya Sinclair | The PEN Ten Interview
For me, and for the women in my family, our stories are the way we preserve our history, our culture, and the vital parts of ourselves that our ancestors… More
Kimberly Nguyen | Emerging Voices Fellow
I was really interested in the idea that pain and trauma can actually be embedded in the language itself. More
Nathan Go | Emerging Voices Fellow
I feel like we are back to square one. We are back to talking about voices that need to be heard because of all the backlash around diversity. More
Paul Yoon | The PEN Ten Interview
My hope is that each story communicates with the one beside it, in setting, in movement, in what it focuses on. More
Mona Awad | The PEN Ten Interview
Really the novel explores how we often focus on the surface in order to avoid pain, or any kind of difficult, deep internal work. More
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