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 inspires me. The landscapes of …
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; I dabbled for fifteen years, …
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 writers write from a fear …
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 Dose of Lit, Maudlin House, …
