LitHub Interview with Kimbilio Fellow Jonathan Escoffery

Jonathan Escoffery on Navigating Identity, Blackness, and Literary Fame Join Kimbilio online and in person @Left Bank Books on September 12, as we celebrate the publications of IF I SURVIVE YOU and Fellow LaToya Watkins PERISH.  https://www.left-bank.com/event/kimbilio-w-lbb-presents-jonathan-escoffery-and-latoya-watkins  

Kimbilio Fellow Lyndsey Ellis Interviewed for Reckon Review

Lyndsey was interviewed by Michaella Thornton. Michaella: When did you realize that you wanted to pursue writing? (I’d love to hear your origin story as a writer…) Lyndsey: I’ve been into creative writing since forever, but I first realized it was something that I wanted to be a lifelong practice when I was a college student. Rewind […]

Jacinda Townsend Interviewed for the FIRST DRAFT Podcast

Jacinda Townsend on What It Means to Mother I

Kimbilio Faculty Member Dolen Perkins_Valdez Interviewed on NPR Weekend Edition

Ayesha Rascoe talks to Dolen Perkins-Valdez about her new novel “Take My Hand,” which fictionalizes a 1973 involuntary sterilization case, and about why she’s drawn to history as a novelist.  

An Interview with Kimbilio Fellow Donald Quist

Form should follow function. Throughout To Those Bounded, I employ a variety of tenses, structures, and points of view in service of the narrative intention. Tense is hugely important in conveying tone and emotion. For the opening, I wanted to pull the reader in with a sense of movement and urgency. The present tense does this well. […]

An Interview with Kimbilio Fellow Nancy Johnson

An Interview with Kimbilio Fellow Julie Iromuanya