Conversations

Anna Journey estranges embodiment with a frenzied tenderness, as can be seen in her poems for the Winter 2021 issue of TheGeorgia Review, which are included in her new book, The Judas Ear. During the surreal flashes that transitioned us from 2021 to 2022, Journey and I conducted this interview via email, where we chatted […]

Aryn Kyle’s story “Copper Queen” was published in the Fall 2021 issue of The Georgia Review and was one of three stories for which The Georgia Review won the National Magazine Award in Fiction this year. Kyle’s short-story collection, Boys and Girls Like You and Me (2010), and her novel, The God of Animals (2007), were both published by Scribner. […]

Nishanth Injam’s story “Come with Me” was published in the Summer 2021 issue of The Georgia Review and was one of three stories for which The Georgia Review won the National Magazine Award in Fiction this year. Injam, who comes from Telangana, India, received an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University […]

Leo Ríos’s story “Vagabond” appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of The Georgia Review. Ríos lives in Tucson, Arizona, and holds an MFA in fiction from Cornell University. His short story “Dirty Dishes” won The Arkansas International’s Emerging Writer’s Prize. Here, he discusses his experience of working with our editors to prepare “Vagabond” for publication. GR: […]

  Melanie P. Moore’s essay “Invisible Woman: A Reflection on Being Seen in America” appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of The Georgia Review. Moore is a writer living in Austin, Texas. A graduate of the University of Georgia with an MA from Georgia State University, she was previously the founder and executive director of Badgerdog […]

Over the last couple of weeks in June, I had the pleasure of conversing with writer and translator Paige Aniyah Morris over email on the occasion of the publication of her translation of Kim Sehee’s “Words and Kisses.” Our conversation began by focusing on “Words and Kisses,” providing fascinating insight into Morris’s choices in translating […]

The lush, carefully catalogued worlds of Shangyang Fang’s poems abound with objects, real and imagined, that are always on the cusp of pushing beyond their own properties: a “cloud of hydrangeas” is a “hydrogen bomb”; the “carcass of a pickup” returns from the grocery “with carnivals.” Fang lashes images to his lines, pulling objects out […]

Anne Goldman’s new essay collection, Stargazing in the Atomic Age, is now out from Georgia Review Books, an imprint of the University of Georgia Press. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews calls Goldman’s book “A beguiling meditation on Jewish achievements that shine brightly against a dark background.” Earlier versions of three of its pieces, including […]

A literary editor, a prose writer, and a poet, Sun Tzu-ping (b. 1976) is an important voice in contemporary Taiwanese gay writing. His poems often depart from his perception of the mundane in an urban setting and lure readers with a lyric sense of abandonment and loneliness. The narrative, if present, is absurd and should […]

Anne Goldman’s new essay collection, Stargazing in the Atomic Age, is now out from Georgia Review Books, an imprint of the University of Georgia Press. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews calls Goldman’s book “A beguiling meditation on Jewish achievements that shine brightly against a dark background.” Earlier versions of three of its pieces, including […]

Cultivating the Wild: William Bartram’s Travels, a collaboration among director Eric Breitenbach, director of photography Scott Auerbach, and writer Dorinda G. Dallmeyer, is a film that contains both despair and hope, telling environmental truths while remaining relentlessly beautiful. Illustrations and excerpts from the writing of Bartram, the eighteenth-century naturalist and artist who explored the American […]

Tobias Wray and Soham Patel discuss, among other things, his poem in the Fall 2020 issue of The Georgia Review, “Each of Us Chimera”; the role of queerness in nature; the nature of truth; the influence of women on gay men’s lit; and his forthcoming collection, No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man, selected […]