Penumbric interview, April 2024

Jeff Georgeson of Penumbric kindly interviewed me, posing questions about cultural influences, The Sign of the Dragon, How to Navigate Our Universe, Zoom, and more.

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Space Cowboy Books reading/interview, February 2024

Space Cowboy Books hosted an event where I first read from How to Navigate Our Universe and then Jean-Paul Garnier interviewed me.

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An interview with Sahtu Press, December 2023

Bryan Thao Worra asks about how I became a writer, my literary inspirations, finding a writing community, and more.

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An interview with Radon Journal, November 2023

The interview covers my new book, How to Navigate Our Universe, and much else besides — from Pittsburgh, to Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, to Picard.

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An interview with Jessica Rydill at Speculative Fiction Showcase, November 2023

A wide-ranging interview, beginning with How to Navigate Our Universe, and moving onto writing and poetry more generally.

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An interview with Andrea Blythe as part of the New Books in Poetry podcast, 1/2022.

In the podcast, I talk primarily about The Sign of the Dragon, but also my writing more generally.

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An interview with Jeremy Bai in the Asian Fantasy Fiction podcast, 5/13/2021

In the podcast, I talk about The Sign of the Dragon, writing, my accent, and other topics.

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An interview with Carrie Gessner at the Positively Pop Culture podcast, May 2020

The first part of the podcast is an interview with poet Erin Carlyle, and then in the second part I babble away about The Sign of the Dragon and Elemental Haiku.

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An interview with Salik Shah at Mithila Review, March 2020

“Your latest collection, Elemental Haiku: Poems to honor the periodic table, three lines at a time, first appeared in the journal Science. How did the book come about? How has been the response so far?”

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A three-part interview with The Sciku Project, September 2019

“In the introduction to the book you say that one day you sat down and without any grand plan in mind wrote a haiku for hydrogen and the rest seemed to follow from there. What prompted you to want to write a poem about hydrogen and why did you choose to write it as a haiku?”

• Read part 1: On Writing Elemental Haiku
• Read part 2: On Publishing Elemental Haiku
• Read part 3: On Writing, Astronomy and Star Trek