Month: November 2015

The Unshakeable Image: A Conversation with Siân Griffiths

By Lindsay Tigue

Lindsay Tigue: Thanks so much for taking the time to answer some questions. I really enjoyed “Sk8r,” and I particularly admired the way you portrayed the protagonist Ilsa’s treatment of Angie. Twelve-year-old Ilsa is a very relatable young protagonist and …

Lindsay Tigue won the Iowa Poetry Prize for her first book, System of Ghosts (University of Iowa Press, 2016). She writes poetry and prose and her work appears in Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. Tigue, a Sewanee Writers’ Conference scholar and Vermont Studio Center fellow, holds an MFA from Iowa State University and is currently a PhD student in creative writing at the University of Georgia.

Beyond Muscle Memory: An Interview with Farrah Karapetian

By Katie Geha
Combat Gear: Testing (2013). 24˝ × 44 1/2˝, unique chromogenic photogram from constructed negative.

Artist Farrah Karapetian’s oeuvre locates emotional weight in the physical making of her often politically rooted subject material. In the case of Muscle Memory, featured in our Fall 2015 issue, Karapetian’s focus, as indicated, is the muscle memory of …

Katie Geha is the director of the Dodd Galleries at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. She is currently writing a novel on art and intimacy.