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Catching Up with 2021 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize Winner Jung Hae Chae

October 26, 2021 | blog, interviews
Jung Hae Chae is a Korean-American writer. She is winner of the 2021 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize and the 2019 Emerging Writers Contest in Nonfiction from Ploughshares. Her work has appeared (or will soon) in AGNI, Crazyhorse, Guernica, New England Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere, and has been included in the Pushcart Prize collection. She is currently at work on a memoir that examines...

Catching Up with 2021 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize Winner Mary Clark

October 26, 2021 | blog, interviews
Mary Clark grew up in Baltimore and after many years of living in Massachusetts, returned to her roots to write novels. She earned an MFA in Poetry from The University of Iowa. Her poems and stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Fiction, The Iowa Review, New England Review, and will appear in J Journal: New Writing...

Joy Is the Garden: A Review of Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Lace & Pyrite

June 21, 2021 | blog, book reviews
Z.L. Nickels Lace & Pyrite 19 pp. Get Fresh Books. $10.00 The most neglected book of garden poems you have never read is not really a book at all. Rather, it is a reprint of an unheralded contribution to literature’s epistolary project, a small gathering of poems-as-letters by two of this country’s best poets, Ross...

Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize Winner Dawn D'Aries

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews
Dawn D’Aries was a finalist for the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction. “The Super’s Wife” represents parts pulled together from a full-length work of creative nonfiction. As an editor and journalist, she has written on a variety of news and feature topics, and counts The Rumpus among her most recent creative nonfiction credits....

Catching Up with 2020 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize Winner Daniel Schonning

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews
Daniel Schonning is the poetry winner of the 2020 Crazyhorse Prizes contest. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Puerto del Sol, Guesthouse, and elsewhere. He studies and teaches in Colorado, where he is currently working on a book of abecedarians. CH: How would you describe yourself as both a person and...

Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize Finalist Bridget Lyons

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews
Bridget A. Lyons is a writer and editor living in Santa Cruz, California. A graduate of Harvard University, she holds an MFA from Northern Arizona University and has had previous lives as a middle school teacher, wilderness guide, yoga instructor, energy bar maker, and graphic designer. Bridget is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has...

Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize Winner Jack Ortiz

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews
Jack Ortiz received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he won the August Derleth Prize. “They’re More Afraid of You” is his first published story. … … … … … CH: How did you first hear about Crazyhorse? JO: When I was an undergrad, I was researching fiction contests, and I submitted to...

Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize Finalist Mi Jin Kim

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews
Mi Jin Kim is a Los Angeles native who currently lives and writes in Seoul, South Korea. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan, where she was a recipient of the Henfield Prize and the FrederickBusch Prize. “The Prince” is her first published story. CH: How did you first hear...

Chasing a Storm: Review of Tariq Shah's Whiteout Conditions

September 16, 2020 | blog, book reviews
Lauren Cortese Whiteout Conditions 115 pp. Two Dollar Radio. $14.99 Tariq Shah’s debut novel, Whiteout Conditions, follows childhood friends Ant and Vince on a pilgrimage through a Midwest snowstorm to a funeral for Vince’s young cousin, Ray, who died under violent, unexpected circumstances. This is Ant’s first trip back to the Chicago suburbs in years...

Mapping One's Creation: Review of Bruce Snider's "Fruit"

June 3, 2020 | blog, book reviews
By Joshua Garcia FruitBy Bruce Snider96 pp. Wisconsin Poetry Series. $16.95 Nearly a decade since Paradise, Indiana reflected on youth like a fever dream of home, grief, and first love, Bruce Snider’s third collection, Fruit, remains mindful of the past yet looks unflinchingly forward. The title, ripe as it is with suggestion—offspring, the temptation to original sin, an...

Stephanie Burt & Carmen Giménez Smith: Questions for Consideration

April 13, 2020 | blog, news
Ivy Keller (Poetry, ’21) As part of its annual reading series, Crazyhorse welcomed esteemed poets and co-editors of The Nation’s poetry section, Carmen Giménez Smith and Stephanie Burt on February 27. Giménez Smith and Burt each read a selection their work and held a joint Q&A session at the College of Charleston. First-year MFA poetry...

Landon Houle's Living Things

November 13, 2019 | blog, book reviews
By Matt Manco Living ThingsBy Landon Houle232 pp. Red Hen Press. $16.95 Black Creek, South Carolina, its residents believe, is the type of town people come to because bad things don’t happen there. But when a young woman is found dead in the creek, that belief is challenged. Landon Houle’s debut novel, Living Things, guides...