Tag: Selfie Interview

John Picard is a native of Washington, D.C. currently living in North Carolina. He received his MFA from the UNC-Greensboro. He has published fiction and nonfiction in New England Review, Narrative, The Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. A collection of his stories, Little Lives, was published ... Read More

J.L.  Torres was born in Cayey, Puerto Rico, a town in the center of the island.  He grew up in the South Bronx and received all of his formal education in the States, then returned to the island to find “roots” and material for his writing.  After years teaching at ... Read More

Nicole Hylton is a writer-of-all-trades from Southern Maryland. She writes poetry, short stories, and has completed two novellas, Internet Official and Dropping Her Gloves. Her work has appeared in Aethlon and Avatar. She's beyond excited to be working with Eckleburg (and not just because The Great Gatsby is her favorite ... Read More

Currently 20 years old, Robert W. Henway is studying English and Creative Writing at the University of Iowa. During his freshman year he had creative nonfiction pieces published in Cleaver Magazine and 1966. "Postcard" is his first published piece of fiction.  Eckleburg: What captures your interest most in your work, ... Read More

Chin-Sun Lee is the author of "The Ravine," originally published in Eckleburg. Her stories and essays have appeared in Your Impossible Voice, The Believer Logger, SLICE, and Shadowbox Magazine, among other publications. She is a contributor to the anthology Women In Clothes (Blue Rider Press/Penguin 2014), edited by Sheila Heti, Heidi ... Read More

Michael Nye is the author of the story collection STRATEGIES AGAINST EXTINCTION (2012) and the novel ALL THE CASTLES BURNED (2018). His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in American Literary Review, Cincinnati Review, Crab Orchard Review, Epoch, Hobart, Kenyon Review and Normal School, among many others. The former managing editor ... Read More

Kia Alice Groom is founding editor of Quaint Magazine. The recipient of an Academy of American Poets award, the runner-up for the 2014 Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and a pushcart nominee, Kia's work has been published in Cordite, Going Down Swinging, The Australian Book Review, Westerly, Permafrost and others. Her work ... Read More

Michael's work has appeared in Barrelhouse Magazine, The Canary Press, Bridge Eight, Adelaide Magazine, The Feminist Literary Magazine, and more. He lives with a blind dog above a duck-pin bowling alley in Baltimore. He has written five unpublished novels.  Eckleburg: What captures your interest most in your work, now, as ... Read More

Originally from New Bern, NC, Cheyenne Autry is a fourth-year fiction student in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas. She likes long walks and short bios. Eckleburg: What captures your interest most in your work, now, as a reader of your work? Cheyenne Autry: I love the strangeness ... Read More

Kristie Smeltzer is an author whose writing has appeared in So to Speak, The Florida Review, Eclectica Magazine, and the Apeiron Review. Her story, “Bridges,” was a runner-up Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art’s 2007 Fiction Contest. Her story, “The Fine Art of Goldfish,” received an honorable mention in ... Read More

Nathan Tavares was born and grew up in southeastern Massachusetts, bounced around New England for a while, and currently live in Boston. He started writing as a kid on an old Apple IIe desktop that, at the end of its life, made clanking noises when he turned it on, until he released ... Read More

Kristie Smeltzer's writing has appeared in So to Speak, The Florida Review, Eclectica Magazine, and The Apeiron Review. Her story,  "Bridges," was a runner-up Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art's 2007 Fiction Contest. Her story, "The Fine Art of Goldfish," received an honorable mention in the WriterHouse/C-ville Weekly 2015 Fiction Contest and ... Read More

Tim Eberle is a New York based writer and comedian, like everybody else who lives in Brooklyn. His writing and performances have appeared in McSweeney's, Splitsider, DNAinfo, the Santa Fe Literary Review, Jewish Life Television, Jewlicious.com, Heeb Magazine, and The Madcap Review, among others. Most recently, he was seen performing ... Read More

Vimi Bajaj is a writer living in Chicago. A graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, she is currently at work on a novel set in modern day India. Publications include Prick of the Spindle, Asian American Literary Review, The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, Panorama Journal, Imperfect Fiction and The Bristol ... Read More

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