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Colm Toibin
February 2, 2018

KR Podcast with Colm Tóibín

In this edition, acclaimed author Colm Tóibín talks to KR editor David Lynn about research process, teaching, and the struggle for Catalan independence. Colm Tóibín is an acclaimed Irish novelist, […]

Marcelo Morales Cintero
January 29, 2018

Marcelo Morales Cintero

Marcelo Morales Cintero (Havana, 1977) is a poet and prose writer. He received a degree in history from the University of Havana and graduated from the Univercità per Stranieri di […]

David Greendonner
January 15, 2018

David Greendonner

David Greendonner is from Bridgman, Michigan, and is a graduate of Western Michigan University’s MFA program in fiction. From 2015 to 2017 he was the managing editor of the literary […]

Saskia Hamilton
January 4, 2018

KR Podcast with Saskia Hamilton

In this episode, poet, editor, and Kenyon alumna Saskia Hamilton talks to Kenyon Professor of Religious Studies Royal Rhodes about Robert Lowell, the importance of silence, and Nobel Prize winner […]

Tyrese Coleman
December 18, 2017

Tyrese L. Coleman

Tyrese L. Coleman is a writer, wife, mother, and attorney. She is also the fiction editor for District Lit, and an associate editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. She is a 2016 […]

Monica Sok
December 11, 2017

Monica Sok

Monica Sok is a Cambodian American poet from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, Kundiman, the Elizabeth […]

December 5, 2017

KR Podcast with Margot Singer

In this episode, KR’s own Elizabeth Dark sits down with Margot Singer to talk about Margot’s book Underground Fugue and other subjects ranging from fear and the role of the […]

Analicia Sotelo
November 27, 2017

Analicia Sotelo

Analicia Sotelo earned her MFA from the University of Houston. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Boston Review, Iowa Review, Antioch Review, Forklift, Ohio, Best New Poets 2015, […]

Lauren Schenkman
November 13, 2017

Lauren Schenkman

Lauren Schenkman’s fiction has been published in Granta and Hudson Review. She has an MFA from Cornell University and was formerly a journalist at Science magazine. In 2015, she received […]

Junot Diaz
November 2, 2017

KR Podcast with Junot Díaz

In this episode, Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz talks to Kenyon College Associate Professor of English Ivonne M. García about expressing his political views on Facebook, an emerging New America, […]

Emily Withnall
October 30, 2017

Emily Withnall

Emily Withnall’s work has appeared in High Country News, Concīs Magazine, and El Palacio Magazine, among others. “Disembodied” is an excerpt of her manuscript Fracture, and the essay won first […]

Cintia Santana
October 9, 2017

Cintia Santana

Cintia Santana’s poetry, fiction, and translations have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Narrative, Pleiades, RHINO, Spillway, Threepenny Review, and other journals. The recipient of a […]