5Q Interviews

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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Erika Morillo

Wednesday, December 18, 2024
"In this image-text memoir, I create an archive out of a myriad of sources: family photographs, images I’ve made, news clippings, videos, and conversations. "
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5Q Interview: Solenn Vincent, editor of The Broken Clock Magazine

Friday, November 22, 2024
"Broken Clock is unique in the fact that it focuses on time. This can be as specific or as vague in the submissions as the contributors would like, but all the pieces are centered around a specific topic within time."
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Sharon Wahl

Wednesday, November 13, 2024
"The book opens with stories of new love—crushes, first dates.  There is a longer story tracing a relationship from beginning to end, followed by stories about breaking up and then starting over, finding just the right person to fall in love with again."
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Shelly Mazzanoble

Tuesday, November 12, 2024
"As a parent, you can’t help but wonder if you’re doing it right, where you’re falling behind, is everyone having more fun than you, do these kids even like me??? I think that way as a parent and a Dungeon Master."
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Marguerite Sheffer

Monday, November 11, 2024
"The stories are completely unlinked, and encompass a mix of genres: there’s horror, science fiction, historical fiction, and a ghost story or two, alongside quite a bit of flash fiction."
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5Q Interview: IWP resident Han Junghyun

Wednesday, November 6, 2024
"I wrote a lot of novels on my iPhone while riding the subway or bus. I write on my iPhone while preparing meals in the kitchen."
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5Q Interview: Mélanie Werder Avilés, IWP Resident

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
"...so far, I'm liking Iowa City a lot: I've been cycling all over it, and the amount of writers you find per square meter is exciting."
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Aaron McCollough

Wednesday, October 23, 2024
"At some point around 2018, I spontaneously started writing pieces that I trusted in a way I hadn't for a long time."
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Melody S. Gee

Tuesday, October 15, 2024
"Language acquisition is something I’ve thought about a great deal in my life—my parents learning English, my navigating English and Cantonese, and various language extinctions in my life."
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Amy Frykholm

Monday, October 14, 2024
"I generally write for about three hours and then panic about the things on my to-do list."