Conversations

INTRODUCTION Black Guy White Guy Talking is a podcast where good friends Elwyn Laud-Hammond and Zachary Watterson talk about gun ownership, reparations, and housing, among other things. They speak with […]

Cole Swensen, judge of our 2024 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, is the author of nineteen books of poetry, most recently And And And (Shearsman Books, 2023); a collection of hybrid ekphrastic essay-poems, Art in […]

Georgia Review graduate editor Sarah Shermyen recently spoke over Zoom with GR contributor Caylin Capra-Thomas about finding home, Florida, and our understandings of beauty. This is an edited version of […]

Award-winning fiction writer Danielle Evans is the final judge of our second annual Georgia Review Prose Prize. Here, associate prose editor Maggie Su interviews Evans about short-story craft and books […]

Audre Lorde said that “poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeletal architecture of our lives.” If some poetry serves as the bones of this architecture, Ariana […]

Fang Xin 方莘 was born in Chengdu, China, in 1939. Ten years later he settled with his family in Taipei, Taiwan. As a teenager he joined an established group of […]

Poet, essayist, and critic Hanif Abdurraqib is the judge for The Georgia Review’s 2023 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize. Here, associate poetry editor Soham Patel interviews Abdurraqib about art in different […]

In celebration of the publication of their newest books, Paisley Rekdal, author of West: A Translation, and Julia H. Lee, author of The Racial Railroad, discuss the cultural influence of […]

INTRODUCTION We’re pleased to have novelist, essayist, and screenwriter Jennine Capó Crucet serving as the judge for our inaugural Georgia Review Prose Prize. Here, associate prose editor Maggie Su interviews […]

In his well-received debut novel The Town of Babylon, published in March, Alejandro Varela’s background in public health informs his critique of the alienation and oppression of twenty-first-century suburban life. […]