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Robert Wrigley: The Willow Springs Interview
If there is a Frank Lloyd Wright of contemporary poetry, it may be Robert Wrigley. Just as each of Wright’s buildings is a unique expression of an organic aesthetic vision, Wrigley’s poems are...
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Robert Lopez: The Willow Springs Interview
The fiction of Robert Lopez occurs in a world simultaneously oppressive and hilarious, in which people fail to recognize their spouses or lovers, in which something is wrong but it’s not clear what, in...
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Lydia Millet: The Willow Springs Interview
Lydia Millet discovered she loved the desert when she attended the University of Arizona’s MFA program. And though she didn’t stay in the program, she returned to live in the desert a decade later—a...
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Jess Walter: The Willow Springs Interview
Jess Walter followed a convoluted path into the literary mainstream: He was a newspaper reporter who became a nonfiction author who became a ghostwriter who became a mystery novelist who became a...
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Gerald Stern: The Willow Springs Interview
Gerald Stern has been described by Kate Daniels as a “post-nuclear, multicultural Whitman for the millennium—the United States’ one and only truly global poet.” He may have had little choice in the...
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Steve Almond: The Willow Springs Interview
The voice in a Steve Almond story or essay or blog post is unmistakable, shaped by a tone typically anchored in dry wit, and a sharp, hungry intelligence that seems capable of taking us anywhere. 1e...
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Patricia Goedicke: The Willow Springs Interview
Patricia Goedicke wrote thirteen books of poetry, including her final manuscript, The Baseball Field at Night, published by Lost Horse Press in 2008. Her numerous awards include a National Endowment...
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Richard Russo: The Willow Springs Interview
Richard Russo was born and raised in the “Glove Cities,” Johnstown and Gloversville, New York, which would become the backdrop for many of his novels. In a 2007 interview with NPR, he said, “I’ve...
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Dorianne Laux: The Willow Springs Interview
Dorianne Laux is the author of seven books of poetry. Her collection Facts about the Moon was the recipient of the Oregon Book Award and short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. She recently...
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Blake Butler: The Willow Springs Interview
In Blake Butler’s work, the ordinary world is made and remade, the familiar becomes strange, the quotidian becomes uncanny, haunted: families discover their own doubles living among them; homes retain...
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Thomas Lynch: The Willow Springs Interview
Thomas Lynch is Milford, Michigan’s funeral director, a job he took over from his father in 1974. Through his examination of death and mortality, Lynch has found much inspiration for his writing. But...
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Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum: The Willow Springs Interview
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of two collections of short fiction. This Life She’s Chosen was published by Chronicle Books in 2005, and was named a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers...
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William Kittredge: The Willow Springs Interview
William Kittredge was 35 when he stopped ranching on his family’s huge Eastern Oregon spread to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, earning his MFA in 1969. In the subsequent decades he has become a...
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Beckian Fritz Goldberg: The Willow Springs Interview
Jean Valentine has characterized Beckian Fritz Goldberg’s work as a “fierce homage to the body and to the spirit.” Landscape may have influenced the intensity of this homage; Goldberg grew up in the...
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Charles D’Ambrosio: The Willow Springs Interview
About his writing’s connection to the Pacific Northwest, Charles D’Ambrosio says, “All the original violence of the American project is still vibrating…in a big bang sort of way—you can stand at the...
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Aimee Bender: The Willow Springs Interview
Jonathan Lethem has called Aimee Bender’s work “visionary, but close to home.” Her short fiction has appeared in such places as GQ, the Paris Review, and Harper’s. Her first story collection, The Girl...
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Marvin Bell: The Willow Springs Interview
Poetry doesn’t easily reveal itself,” Marvin Bell said during his opening remarks at the International Camouflage Conference at the University of Northern Iowa in 2006. “At first glance, it looks and...
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William T. Vollmann: The Willow Springs Interview
When I’m dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing,” William T. Vollmann declared in a 2014 essay in the Atlantic. “For an artist…it’s good to remember that nothing...
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