Sally Wiener Grotta interviewed me for her “What If? Why Not? How?” series. Our chat focuses on The Sign of the Dragon.

What If? Why Not? How? with Sally Wiener Grotta

Adam Dalton-West interviewed myself, F. J. Bergmann, Beth Cato, Linda D.
Addison and David C. Kopaska-Merkel about speculative poetry. This article first appeared on the SFPA blog in May 2026.

A Time-traveller’s Guide to Speculative Poetry: Part Four, Contemporary

On 5/19/2025, I joined C. S. E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez for an episode of their Fiction: Impossible Twitch series. Our conversation began with a reading/interview from The Sign of the Dragon, followed by book and board game recommendations.

Here is a link to the recording. N.B. The main portion begins at 12 and a 1/2 minutes. [Before that there’s a section with chatter but no video.] I’m not certain how long this link will stay active.

Many thanks to Claire and Carlos, who are awesome!

Brandon O’Brien, Poet Laureate for the upcoming Seattle Worldcon, chatted with me about speculative poetry, for his Con-Verse blog for Worldcon.

You can read the interview here.

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.

Read the whole interview.

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.

You can watch the video version or listen to the audio only (for the audio option, scroll to find the relevant interview).

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.

Read the whole interview.

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.

Read the whole interview.

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.

Read the whole interview.

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.

Listen to the podcast.