Interviews
To speak with Roberto Tejada is to enter a vast and shifting constellation of art, poetry, and cultural memory—an image world where language is always in motion, and the future is never separate from the past.
Richard Blanco’s life reads like a map whose borders refuse to stay still. Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents, raised in the working-class neighborhoods of Miami, and called upon to speak at the center of national history as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history, Blanco embodies the beautifully complex journeys of belonging that animate his writing.
Interview with Bryson Chun, IAIA MFA in Screenwriting Alum Soon to Write Live-Action Musical Feature ‘The First & Last’ For Tara Sickmeier’s Meráki
Interview with National Book Award Winner for Nonfiction 2024, Jason De León
Interview with Chris Hoshnic, Chapter House Journal Editor-in-Chief, on Crossing Genres from Poetry to Playwriting and Beyond
Interview with Héctor Tobar, author of Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of Latino
Matt Sedillo, author of the recently published Mexican Style, gives a candid interview over craft, the current state of Chicano poetry, and many more insights, 9/23/2025
Percival Everett, Novelist of “James”, "Erasure", among many other books. 7/16/25
Interview with Kimberly Blaeser, author of “Ancient Light,” and Rey M. Rodríguez and Tanya Tyler
Diana Marie Delgado, Editor of “Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration,” 6/7/25
Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of “Art Above Everything,” 5/30/25
Yaccaira Salvatierra, author of “Sons of Salt,” 5/24/25
Interview with Elise Paschen, author of “Blood Wolf Moon”, 4/25/25
Debra Magpie Earling, author of “The Lost Journals of Sacajewea”, 4/20/25
Jamie Figueroa, author of “Mother Island”, 3/25/25
Kaveh Akbar, author of "Martyr!", 3/9/25
Deborah Jackson Taffa, author of "Whiskey Tender", 2/13/25
Layli Long Soldier, author of "Whereas", 2/7/25
Luz Schweig, Editor of “Somos Xicanas”, 2/5/25
Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of “The Man Who Could Move Clouds", 2/1/25
Tommy Orange, author of "There There" and "Wandering Stars", 1/26/25
Bettye Kearse, author of “The Other Madisons”, 1/24/25
Mary C. Moore of Aevitas Creative Management, 12/3/24
Kinsale Drake, author of "The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket: Poems", 11/23/24
IAIA Alumna Ramona Emerson, author of "Exposure", 11/20/24
Reyna Grande, author of “A Ballad of Love & Glory”, 11/18/24
Octavio Quintanilla, author of "The Book of Wounded Sparrows", 10/28/24
Poet and IAIA Alumni Jake Skeets, author of "Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers", 10/15/24
Luis J. Rodríguez, author of "Todos los Caminos Llevan a Casa", 9/30/24
Jennifer Maritza McCauley, author of “Kinds of Grace", 9/23/24
Sergio Troncoso, Author of “Nobody’s Pilgrims", 9/16/24
m.s. RedCherries, author of ”mother”, 8/27/24
Amber McCrary, Founder of Abalone Mountain Press, 2/16/24
Elissa Washuta, author of "White Magic" and "My Body Is a Book of Rules", 7/29/21
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of several books including "World of Wonders", 4/15/16
Poet & Screen Writer Shane Book, 9/7/15