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June 7, 2017

KR Podcast with Andrea Wulf

In this episode, award-winning author Andrea Wulf talks to Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky about her book The Invention of Nature, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, and the need for a modern-day Humboldt. […]

Kazim Ali
May 29, 2017

Kazim Ali

Kazim Ali’s most recent book of poetry is Sky Ward (Wesleyan, 2013). His other recent books include a book of essays, Resident Alien (Michigan, 2015) and a collection of short […]

Paula Carter
May 15, 2017

Paula Carter

Paula Carter’s essays have appeared in Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Rumpus, Southern Humanities Review, and Salon.com. She holds an MFA from Indiana University. Her essay “City Swarm” can be found here. […]

Lauret Savoy
May 8, 2017

KR Podcast with Lauret Savoy

In this episode, writer, geologist and professor of environmental studies at Mount Holyoke College Lauret Savoy, author of Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape, talks with Associate Editor […]

Ryan Patrick Smith
May 1, 2017

Ryan Patrick Smith

Ryan Patrick Smith holds a BA in English from Transylvania University and MFA in poetry from the University of Missouri–St. Louis. His poetry, runner-up in the 2015 Boston Review Poetry […]

Brenda Walker
April 17, 2017

Brenda Walker

Brenda Walker has written four novels and one memoir. The most recent novel, The Wing of Night (Penguin, 2006) won the Asher Award, the Nita B. Kibble Award, and was […]

April 6, 2017

KR Podcast with Lauren Redniss

In this episode, graphic journalist and 2016 MacArthur Fellow Lauren Redniss, author of Thunder and Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future, talks with Associate Editor Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky about drawing with words […]

Paddy O'Reilly
April 3, 2017

Paddy O’Reilly

Paddy O’Reilly is the author of three novels and two short story collections. Her work has been published internationally and has won or been shortlisted for a number of major […]

Jaya Savige
March 20, 2017

Jaya Savige

Jaya Savige’s poetry collections include Maze Bright (Vagabond Rare Objects, 2014), Surface to Air (UQP, 2011), and Latecomers (UQP, 2005). He was born in Sydney, grew up on Bribie Island […]

Solmaz Sharif
March 6, 2017

KR Podcast with Solmaz Sharif

In this episode, poet Solmaz Sharif, author of LOOK, and Editor at Large Andrew Grace discuss poetry’s responsibility to be politically engaged. Sharif insists, in response to the argument that […]

Paul Hetherington
March 6, 2017

Paul Hetherington

Paul Hetherington has recently published his tenth collection of poetry, Burnt Umber (UWA Publishing, 2016). He won the 2014 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards (poetry) and is professor of writing […]

David Winner
February 20, 2017

David Winner

David Winner’s most recent novel, Tyler’s Last, a darkly comic homage to Patricia Highsmith, came out in October of 2015. His first novel, The Cannibal of Guadalajara, won the 2015 […]