Interviews
An Interview with Rebecca McClanahan.
William H. Coles
Rebecca McClanahan lives in New York on the upper West side on Manhattan. She is a successful author in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. She won the Glasgow Prize in nonfiction for The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings. Recently her book Deep Light: New and Selected Poems has received wide acclaim. Among numerous other publications, she has written two books on writing: Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively and Write Your Heart Out. She teaches frequently in workshops (Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, Hudson Valley Writers Center, to name only a few) and two MFA programs (Queens University, Charlotte, NC and MFA@Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA). She has been honored extensively with national prizes and awards.
An Interview with Charles D'Ambrosio.
William H. Coles
Charles D’Ambrosio grew up in Seattle, Washington, and now lives in Portland, Oregon. He attended Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers Workshop. He has published two collections of short stories, The Point (1995), The Dead Fish Museum (2006), and a collection of essays Orphans (2005). His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, and A Public Space. He received the Whiting Writers’ Award and is a Rasmuson Fellow.
An Interview with Rob Spillman.
William H. Coles
Rob Spillman is Editor of Tin House Magazine—a literary magazine that has been honored in Best American Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, O. Henry Prize Stories, the Pushcart Prize Anthology and numerous other anthologies–and he is also the Executive Editor of Tin House Books. His writing has appeared in BookForum, the Boston Review, Connoisseur, Details, GQ, Nerve, the New York Times Book Review, Real Simple, Rolling Stone, Salon, Spin, Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Worth, among other magazines, newspapers, essay collections, and online journals. He has worked for Random House, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker.
An Interview with Susan Yeagley / Kevin Nealon.
William H. Coles
Susan Yeagley was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She graduated Cum Laude from USC’s famed film school. She trained at theGroundlings in comedy where she performed stand up. She has worked in film and television in various distinguished roles and has hosted World’s Funniest Commercials in 2006 and 2007. She lives in Los Angeles. She is married to Kevin Nealon.
Kevin Nealon was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but grew up inConnecticut. He excels at stand up comedy. He was on Saturday Night Live for nine seasons creating memorable characters—Mr. Subliminal, “Franz” of Hans and
Franz (with Dana Carvey), and Mr. No Depth Perception, the anchor of Weekend
Update, and others. He has starred in films and he has had many appearances on
network television as a guest and in recurrent roles. Recently, he has had a
lead role in the cast of “Weeds,” a Golden Globe nominee in 2009. He is
married to Susan Yeagley.
An Interview with Michael Ray.
William H. Coles
Michael Ray was born in Washington, D.C. He enjoys sports and played lacrosse from the
third grade through college–for the Mater Dei School, Georgetown Preparatory
School, and Vanderbilt–where he graduated in 1996. He is an avid fan of SEC
football. Before Zoetrope, he wrote for many other magazines on music, film,
and books. He started at Zoetrope: All-Story in 2002 where he is now
Editor in Chief. In addition to his editorial duties, he writes scripts for
films. He is married and he and his wife, Anne, have a son.
An Interview with Michael Malone.
William H. Coles
Michael Malone is a Native of North Carolina and lives in Hillsborough, NC.
He is a highly successful author of mystery and comedic novels, many set in North Carolina
(First Lady
The Killing Club
His mystery story “Red Clay” received the Edgar Award for Best Short Story in 1997.
He is the acclaimed, award-winning head writer of television drama,
One Life to Live (1991-96, 2006-07) and Another World (2003-04).
He is Visiting Professor at Duke University where he teaches American film studies.
An Interview with David Lynn.
William H. Coles
David Lynn is editor of The Kenyon Review, a distinguished journal of literature, culture, and the arts. He received his B. A. from Kenyon College where he now teaches, and his MA and PhD at the University of Virginia where he studied with Peter Taylor. In addition to numerous scholarly articles, he wrote the novel, [Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002], and a book of fourteen stories, Fortune Telling
An Interview with Lee Martin.
William H. Coles
LEE MARTIN is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Bright Forever
An Interview with Jim Shepard.
William H. Coles
Jim Shepard is the J. Leland Miller Professor of English at Williams College, in Williamstown, MA. He previously taught at the University of Michigan. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Award, 2004. He attended Trinty College and did postgraduate at Brown University. He is the author of six novels, the most recent, Project X
An Interview with John Biguenet.
William H. Coles
An O. Henry Award winner, John is the Robert Hunter Distinguished University Professor at Loyola University in New Orleans, where he teaches creative writing. Among his six books are an acclaimed volume of short stories, The Torturer’s Apprentice,
An Interview with Ron Carlson.
William H. Coles
Ron Carlson is Director of Creative Writing at the University of California, Irvine. He received a Masters degree in English from the University of Utah. He has published widely both novels, his most recent The Signal
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