Wandeka Gayle Featured on the Black & Published Podcast
Kimbilio Fellow Wandeka Gayle Interviewed about her short story collection, Motherland and Other Stories by Nikesha Williams for the BLACK & PUBLISHED podcast.
Jeffrey Renard Allen on the Radio in Australia
2015 and 16 Kimbilio Faculty Member Jeffrey Renard Allen Interviewed by ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Kima Jones (’14) Interviews Colson Whitehead for GQ
Colson Whitehead made his debut in 1999 with the publication of his first novel The Intuitionist. At the time, the country was in the middle of a Y2K meltdown, Whitehead introduced us to Lila Mae Watson, a black, female elevator inspector under investigation after one of the lifts she inspected has failed. Lila Mae, a […]
Kima Jones (’14) Discusses Publicity with NPR Code Switch
Kima Jones, who owns the publicity company Jack Jones Literary Arts, says, “There needs to be more women of color in publishing, in positions of power, period. As I see other book clubs and speaking series, reading series, organizations pop up that are dedicated to writers of color, queer writers, disabled writers, other marginalized writers, […]
Cole Lavalais Interviewed in Full Stop Quarterly
An interview with Andrew Mitchell Davenport In her 1942 autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road, Zora Neale Hurston writes, “If you have received no clear-cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes […]
Julia Brown (’13) Interview Andrea Lee for GULF COAST
(Note: KIMBILIO thanks Julia for her ongoing service to our community. Since 2014, she has graciously volunteered to prepare manuscript material for our retreat.) Andrea Lee writes the kind of dazzling, lyrical prose that delights with its boldness—over three acclaimed novels, a New York Times Notable short story collection, and many essays and articles in publications […]
Deesha Philyaw (’15) Interviews Cole Lavalais (’13, ’15)
Cole Lavalais’s arresting debut novel, The Summer of the Cicadas, engages with a mother-daughter relationship, mental health, and first love, set on the campus of small black college in the South. The novel’s main character Viola (Vi) Moon is still emotionally fragile after a recent hospitalization at a mental health facility, but she’s also determined […]
