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April 2, 2019

KR Podcast with R. O. Kwon

Best-selling author R. O. Kwon talks with Kenyon Review editor at large Katharine Weber about Kwon’s timely novel, The Incendiaries. They also discuss the many paths to becoming a writer […]

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March 25, 2019

Caki Wilkinson

Caki Wilkinson is the author of the poetry collections Circles Where the Head Should Be (University of North Texas Press, 2011), which won the Vassar Miller Prize, and The Wynona […]

March 15, 2019

KR Podcast with Rodger Kamenetz

Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Jew in the Lotus and The History of Last Night’s Dream, speaks with his KR Writers Workshop Fellow Jessica Kinnison about the primary imagination, the […]

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March 11, 2019

Eric Gansworth

Eric Gansworth, S˚ha-weñ na-saeɂ (Onondaga), writer and visual artist, was raised at the Tuscarora Nation. He is a professor and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College. In 2016, he was NEH […]

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March 1, 2019

KR Podcast with Eric Gansworth

Eric Gansworth, the author of “Secret Identity” in the Mar/Apr Kenyon Review, speaks with Editor at Large Janet McAdams about the compartmentalization of narratives from marginalized communities and the value […]

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February 25, 2019

KR Podcast with Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine

Writers Workshop fellow Robyn-Phalen Rayson converses with writer Ghassan Abou-Zeinnedine about the role of comedy, folklore, grief and politics in the crafting of a narrative. Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine holds an MFA […]

Hanna Halperin Goldstein
February 25, 2019

Hanna Halperin Goldstein

Hanna Halperin Goldstein’s stories have appeared in New Ohio Review, Joyland, and Adirondack Review. She earned her MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is currently living in […]

Elizabeth Bradfield
February 11, 2019

Elizabeth Bradfield

Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of the poetry collections Once Removed (Persea, 2015), Approaching Ice (Persea, 2010), Interpretive Work (Arktoi/Red Hen, 2008), and the forthcoming Toward Antarctica (Boreal/Red Hen, 2019). […]

Hilary Plum
January 31, 2019

KR Podcast with Hilary Plum

Elizabeth Dark, KR’s associate director of programs, talks with prose writer Hilary Plum about documentary fiction, the experience of reading the news, and the stories we choose to keep in […]

Sangamithra Iyer
January 28, 2019

Sangamithra Iyer

Sangamithra Iyer is the author of The Lines We Draw (Hen Press, 2014), editor of Satya: The Long View, and a finalist for the Siskiyou Prize in New Environmental Literature. […]

Laura Roque
January 14, 2019

Laura Roque

Laura Roque is the daughter of Cuban political exiles and was raised in Hialeah, Florida. She graduated from the University of Florida in 2014 and earned her MFA at Florida […]