Crafting fiction
An interview with Stephanie Dupal, whose debut collection of short stories is The Kindness of Terrible People. Born in a small town in Quebec, Canada, Stephanie made her roundabout way to Woodbridge, Virginia, where she teaches at Northern Virginia Community College.
At the intersection of creativity and community building
Jonetta Rose Barras is the kind of writer who inspires, both through her words and through her works. I had the pleasure of interviewing her about the MidnightRose reading series, a project she started in 2024 (or perhaps resurrected, as she organized an earlier incarnation in the 1970s). Jonetta doesn’t work alone—that’s not her style—and while I would say that MidnightRose is her brainchild, it is also the product of many voices coming together to build something special.