Slow Guillotine
“It’s so easy to be right next to something and never experience it.” The sentence comes about a fourth of the way through Teo Rivera-Dundas’ debut novel and winner of the 2026 Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction, Slow Guillotine, and encapsulates a key theme of the book: adjacence. What …
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Radicle: An Interview with Nina Lichtenstein
Nina B. Lichtenstein is an expat Norwegian Lutheran turned American Viking Jewess with life and teaching experience from three continents. As readers will discover, Lichtenstein is the kind of salt-of-the-earth woman everyone talks about; she adds flavor, positive influence, and kindness to her endeavors and the communities she touches. …
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An Interview with Sue William Silverman
Sue William Silverman is no stranger to the writing life, nor the winding trajectory to publication. Penning poetry, fiction, and personal and craft essays, Silverman also has five memoirs to her name, including her newly released flash-micro essay collection Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader. Her …
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Thank You for Staying With Me
Thank You for Staying With Me (University of Nebraska Press, 2025), Moore’s debut essay collection, traces a dizzying path through her abruptly ended Ozarks girlhood and the person she continues to become as a result. Her prose ranges from the traditionally structured to the very short (“Overkill”) to that …
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An Interview with Abbie Kiefer
Poet Abbie Kiefer recently sat down with our Radicle Poetry Interviewer, Shanta Lee, to talk about pop culture, loss, navigating the realities of rejection, and what inspires her work. Abbie’s debut full-length collection, Certain Shelter, was recently published by June Road Press. Shanta Lee: Tell me about …
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Radicle: An Interview with sid sibo
sid sibo recently sat down with our Associate Managing Editor, R.S. Saha, to talk about animals, the connectedness of characters and environment, and how a shift to a more environmental worldview impacts their work. sid’s debut novel The Scent of a Distant Family, published by the University of Nebraska …
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Radicle: An Interview with Ewa Chrusciel
Ewa Chrusciel is a poet and translator working in English and Polish. Her poems have appeared in many books and magazines in Poland, England, Italy, and the United States, including Jubilat, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Lana Turner, Spoon River Review, and Aufgabe. She’s translated Jack London, Joseph Conrad, and I.B. …
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Radicle: An Interview with Jennifer Lang
Note: This interview was conducted in May 2023. Jennifer Lang has vivid memories of mother-daughter pilgrimages to the Oakland public library when she was a child. She can hear the creak of the hardwood floor, her mom shushing her if she dared speak. She can feel her fingers touch …
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Radicle: An Interview with Dur e Aziz Amna
All my life, I’ve been known as the girl from everywhere. The evidence of this lies in my upbringing: I was born in Riyadh and have lived in Toronto, Dubai, Lahore, Boston (for a hot minute), and Memphis. I’m proud of this everywhere-ness of mine—it’s a distinguishing trait and it’s …
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Radicle: An Interview with Dur-e-Aziz Amna
Dur e Aziz Amna is from Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and now lives in Newark, USA. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Financial Times, and Al Jazeera, among others. She was selected as Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2022, and won the 2019 Financial Times / Bodley Head Essay …
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