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Carol Mirakove is the author of two books of poems, Mediated and Occupied, and three chapbooks, Muriel’s House, temporary tattoos, and WALL. She has provided spoken word for tracks by musicians bates45 and Firas Kay. She has lived in Brooklyn for 17 years (not in a row).
Irish author Megan Nolan has written two novels now, the titles of which neatly represent fatal flaws that set nearly all fiction in motion. Nolan’s latest, Ordinary Human Failings brings to mind the regrets of inaction—mundane sufferings, paralysis by analysis.
Maybe the best way to make sense of a wild hair is to locate its strange bedfellow. Confronted by Isabel Waidner’s latest novel, the surreal and splendid Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, I sought out their previous. This was Sterling Karat Gold, which in 2021 captured the UK’s Goldsmiths award for “fiction that breaks the mold;” American publication came last year. Sure enough, that book and the new one prove companion berserkers.
Ashley D Escobar is a bi-coastal writer, filmmaker, and fiction MFA candidate at Columbia University. Her first poetry chapbook SOMETIMES came out with Invisible Hand Press in 2021. She co-edits Wind-up Mice and has appeared in the London Magazine, Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere.
Sandra Simonds is an award-winning writer and professor who has taught at Bennington College, Florida State University and Thomas University. She is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Triptychs (Wave Books, November 2022) which was a 2022 New York Times selection.