Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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April 25, 2009

Meghan Kenny

A Conversation With Meghan Kenny by KR fiction editor Geeta Kothari Meghan Kenny has lived in Japan, Boise, Idaho, and the coast of northern Peru. Currently, she lives in Baltimore, […]

January 29, 2009

Carl Phillips

A Conversation With Carl Phillips by KR poetry editor David Baker Carl Phillips has emerged in the past decade as one of America’s most original, influential, and productive of lyric […]

October 25, 2008

Dana Levin

A Conversation with Dana Levin by KR Editor-At-Large G. C. Waldrep Transcript G. C. Waldrep: In her introduction to In the Surgical Theater, Louise Glück asserts that you write as […]

July 24, 2008

Bonnie Jo Campbell

A Conversation with Bonnie Jo Campbell Bonnie Jo Campbell lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Before becoming a writer, she held a variety of jobs, which included traveling with the Ringling Bros. […]

March 23, 2008

Andre Bernard

A Conversation With Andre Bernard By KReditor David Lynn Transcript David Lynn: What was the initial draw or inspiration to writing a column such as “The Casual Reader”? How does […]

January 25, 2008

Ted Kooser

A Conversation With Ted Kooser by KR poetry editor David Baker Ted Kooser is an American original, whose work in poetry is akin to the paintings of Grant Wood and […]

September 29, 2007

Anne Panning

A Conversation With Anne Panning By KR fiction editor Nancy Zafris Anne Panning’s short story collection, Super America, won the 2006 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and will be […]

September 25, 2007

Rebecca McClanahan

A Conversation With Rebecca McClanahan by KR fiction editor Nancy Zafris Transcript Nancy Zafris: You’re one of the few writers who can write exceptionally well in all genres: poetry, fiction, […]

June 29, 2007

Stanley Plumly

A Conversation With Stanley Plumly by KR poetry editor David Baker Stanley Plumly was born in 1939 in Barnesville, Ohio, and grew up in the rural Quaker countryside of Ohio […]

June 1, 2007

Lori White

A Conversation With Lori White by KR fiction editor Nancy Zafris Transcript Nancy Zafris: This is your first, or one of your first publications, is that right? Lori White : […]

March 24, 2007

Linda Gregerson

A Conversation With Linda Gregerson by KR poetry editor David Baker Linda Gregerson is one of the most original and vibrant of contemporary American poets. Born in 1950 and raised […]

January 25, 2007

Holly Goddard Jones

A Conversation With Holly Goddard Jones Holly Jones is a young writer whose story “Life Expectancy” appears in our Winter 2007 issue. Other stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Southern Review, […]