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TÉA OBREHT BY DAVID STUBBSPOETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE • VOLUME 47 • ISSUE 5 • SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 201956 A GIFT
In the follow-up to her best-selling debut novel, The Tiger’s Wife,
which drew from her early childhood in Belgrade, Téa Obreht
takes readers to the inhospitable and drought-ridden Arizona
territory of 1893.
by amy gall
63 THE NEW NONFICTION 2019
Debut authors Jayson Greene, Noam Dorr, Sarah M. Broom,
Krista Eastman, and Jaquira Díaz.
72 AGENTS & EDITORS
Having come up in the world of literary magazines and small
presses, Ben George, who is now a senior editor at Little, Brown
and works with some of the biggest names in literary fiction
and nonfiction, talks about the author-editor relationship,
the plight of the midlist writer, and the art of revision.
by m. allen cunningham
78 BODY LANGUAGE
A photographer explores the process of creating visual
narratives in Children of Grass, an expansive three-year
poetry portraiture project for which he asked poets
across the country to pose for a concept based on
a poem by each subject.
by b. a. van sise
92 MY MFA EXPERIENCE
Ten recent graduates on the realities of
applying to, choosing, and attending
a writing program.
by kevin larimer