Category: Selfie Interview

Melanie Lynn Griffin is a freelance writer, teacher, and environmental communications specialist whose work has appeared in Sierra magazine, AARP Bulletin, Sojourners, and So To Speak Journal. She is a pastor at Cedar Ridge Community Church in Spencerville, Maryland, and leads writing workshops and contemplative retreats. Ms. Griffin holds an ... Read More

Sandeep Kumar Mishra is an outsider artist, an international freelance writer and a lecturer . His works are artistic manifestation of his actual self and shows the heart for nature and its beautiful creations including human especially woman. He runs an academy called “Kishlaya Outsider Art Academy” in his home ... Read More

Greg Moglia is a veteran of 27 years as Adjunct Professor of Philosophy of Education at N.Y.U and 37 years as a high school teacher of Physics and Psychology. His poems have been accepted in over 300 journals in the U.S., Canada England, India, Australia, Sweden, Belgium and Austria as well ... Read More

Charles is an emerging writer with a poem appearing in Anima Poetry Press, and now with this as his first fiction publication at Eckleburg. He's currently enrolled in the Creative Writing BA program at ASU, and will have received his degree by the end of 2017. Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, ... Read More

Christine Stoddard is a writer and artist originally from Arlington, Virginia. She also is the founding editor of Quail Bell Magazine, an online and occasional print publication for real and unreal stories from around the world. Christine's work has appeared everywhere from Cosmopolitan to the New York Transit Museum to ... Read More

Josh Medsker is a New Jersey writer, originally from Alaska. His work has appeared. Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Josh Medsker: Right now what's driving me is total fear. I started a poetry project in July called Medskerpedia. Every day I read an entry from the ... Read More

Jeannine Ouellette's writing has appeared widely in magazines and journals and she has worked as a writer and editor at regional and national magazines. She has published four books, including the children's picture book, Mama Moon, and she is a 2015 recipient of a Curt Johnson Award in fiction for ... Read More

Evelyn Sharenov lives and writes in Portland, OR. She received degrees in literature and piano performance in NYC, where she grew up, and then returned to school to become a psychiatric nurse. Her fiction and essays have been published in Glimmer Train, Oregon Humanities Magazine, the New York Times, Fugue, ... Read More

Darlene Pagán teaches creative writing and literature at Pacific University in Oregon. She published a poetry chapbook, Blue Ghosts (Finishing Line Press 2011), and a full-length collection, Setting the Fires (Airlie Press 2015). Individual poems have appeared in journals such as Field, Calyx, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poet Lore, Hiram Poetry ... Read More

Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Dawn S. Davies: Jaco Pastorius, Richard Fenyman, my family, people who jump off bridges for fun, people who can make art out of blocks of ice, bees, Mark Knopfler, the memory of my childhood Big Wheel, the person who told me ... Read More

Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Aimee LaBrie: Reading, reading, reading. I usually have two or three books going at the same time, and I'll skip between them. I also like to read interviews with writers to see where they get their inspiration and how they fit ... Read More

Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Mark Fabiano: You know this world we live in pushes, almost oppresses the artistic instinct in us all. So I struggle against this "night," this long and dark evening of the soul by getting in touch with my artistic center. Its ... Read More

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Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Ellen Urbani: When I was a single mother to two wee ones, I felt my brain cells dying every time I reread GOODNIGHT MOON (which I did about 87 times per day for years on end). As such, I wrote LANDFALL ... Read More

Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Cathy T. Colborn: I grew up in Philadelphia, PA. I love the city of Philadelphia, the beach towns of New Jersey, and the lovely city of New Orleans. I frequent these places as often as I can to boost my inspiration ... Read More

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Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Rion Amilcar Scott: Restlessness, boredom, Wu-Tang, insecurity, debt, my characters, injustice, my vision, energy drinks, my son, competition, Diaz, Ellison, Morrison...there's a million other things. Eckleburg: If you had to arm wrestle a famous writer, poet or artist, either living or ... Read More

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Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? S.K. Kalsi: Language inspires me, everyday speech with its hidden rhythms, cadences, and how meaning is contextual. My son inspires me. Seeing his fearlessness at play. Watching him take risks, fall, get back up, and try again. His dogged persistence. Nature ... Read More

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Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Amy Collini: My children are my primary driver, but in unexpected ways. Before I had children, I lived in an ocean of free time without even knowing it! And I never used my free time toward any productive attempts at writing; ... Read More

Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Jacob M. Appel: A deep and abiding sense of inadequacy. I suppose that's exactly the sort of answer one might expect from a writer-psychiatrist, but that doesn't make it less true. I think there's an argument to be made that some ... Read More

Kristen MacKenzie lives on Vashon Island in a quiet cabin where the shelves are filled with herbs for medicine-making, the floor is open for dancing, and the table faces the ocean, waiting for a writer to pick up the pen. Her work has appeared in Brevity, Rawboned, GALA, Extract(s) Daily ... Read More

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