Five Questions
Kayla Rae Candrilli: Your story, “Trees” in NANO 9.2’s queer feature, amazes me in its subtlety and its ability to bring sexualities commonly erased by mainstream culture…
Kayla Rae Candrilli: Your story “Instead,” to be featured in NANO 9.2, is constructed as one sentence, a litany of “Insteads.” Can you tell us…
Kayla Rae Candrilli: Your story, “Julio Bodega” in NANO 9.2’s queer feature, stuns me in its brevity, but also in its specificity and detail. I…
Moira McAvoy: Can you shed any light on “Like the ‘h’ in ‘uh-oh’,” the title of your piece in issue 9.1? My personal theory is…
Moira McAvoy: Your piece, “Runs in My Veins,” is one of my favorites from NANO Fiction’s issue 9.1. I particularly loved your fresh take on…
NANO Fiction: Your recent collection, Fissures, consists of one hundred 100-word stories. (We’re delighted to publish “Shirley Temple” from the collection issue 9.1 of NANO…
MoiraMcAvoy: Your speaker in issue 9.1’s “Volleyball” is deeply layered, both sympathetic and immensely unsettling in their tightrope walk between loneliness and voyeurism, and the…
Moira McAvoy : Your story “Whales in Minnesota” (9.1) draws its tension from both a sense of community–between the speaker and his or her friend,…
This interview is part of Issue 9.1’s Sehr Flash feature. Click here for more details. Kirby Johnson: Tell us a bit how your personal practices….
Moira McAvoy: I was drawn to the intimacy of your story “Leaning In” in NANO Fiction‘s issue 9.1 as well as the refreshing take on…