Friends for Five: Interviews with AWP Attendees

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Interns Alex and Sarah interview a diverse collection of attendees at AWP Portland in March of 2019. Ernesto L. Abeytia is a Spanish-American poet and teacher. He holds an MFA from Arizona State University and MAs from Saint Louis University and the Autonomous University of Madrid. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Fugue, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, PBS NewsHour, The Shallow Ends, Zocalo Public Square, and elsewhere. Website: ernestoabeytia.com Twitter: @eabeytia Missy Ladygo Creator and former Editor of Shards through the University of Houston, Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman is a bi-racial Muslim writer and artist. She holds dual Bachelor’s degrees in Creative Writing and History. She is the Administrative Coordinator at Writers in the Schools, the Marketing and Development Director of Defunkt Magazine and creator of Brown Girls Book Club. Her interests are Middle Eastern History, culture, linguistics, and biracial identity. She primarily writes from the Arab-American perspective. Her fiction, poetry, essays, and translation publications can be found or are forthcoming in: Scintilla Magazine, Paper Trains Journal, The Bayou Review: The Women's Issue, and Glass Mountain, Volume 21, Dead Eyes Literary Magazine. Her visual Artistry can be found in Cosumnes River Journal, Sonder Midwest Review, and Wordpeace Magazine. Instagram: tamara_jean_ Beret Olsen Jessica L. Walsh is the author of two poetry collections, The List of Last Tries and How to Break My Neck. Her work has appeared in RHINO, Tinderbox, Whale Road Review, and other journals. She teaches at a community college outside of Chicago and practices archery, which is the best therapy. Website: jessicalwalsh.com Facebook and Instagram: jessicalwalshpoet KB is a Black queer nonbinary poet, editor, and educator currently based in Austin, TX. They have received fellowship invitations from the Vermont Studio Center, Lambda Literary, The Hurston/Wright Foundation, The Watering Hole, Winter Tangerine, and UTSA's African American Literatures and Cultures Institute. KB's poetry appears in The Cincinnati Review, The Matador Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, NAILED Magazine, The Shade Journal, Sappho's Torque, and other pretty places. When they're not on the stage or in the page, they serve as Program Coordinator for the University of Texas at Austin's Gender and Sexuality Center, Founder/Co-Organizer of ATX Interfaces, Teaching Artist for the Austin Library Foundation, Assistant Editor for Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and proud member of Lenguas Locxs Writers Collective. If you got this far, see them talk poems, sweetness & other things on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. They think all your dreams are possible. Website: earthtokb.com Twitter and Instagram: earthtokb New Rivers Press is a teaching press operating in association with Minnesota State University Moorhead. The press gives student interns hands-on experience with editing, publishing, and the business of books. Since 2003, every New Rivers Press title has been edited and designed by MSUM students under the supervision of New Rivers Press staff. For more information about the press, our authors, and our upcoming events, follow us on social media @nrppodcast or check out our website: newriverspress.com. Thank you to Minnesota State Educational Innovations for making this podcast possible. The views expressed are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of New Rivers Press, Minnesota State University Moorhead, or any employees thereof. Music Copyright © 2018 by Sakora Studio. Music composed by Thomas Maresh. Podcast Image created by Mikaila Norman.