Author: Josh Michael

Josh Michael is associate fiction editor for Mud Season Review. He is a writer and educator living in Billings, MT, where he works as an adjunct at Montana State University-Billings, and as a poetry teacher for the non-profit Arts Without Boundaries. He has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. In his spare time he is a drummer in various rock and funk bands.

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Talbot Hook on Putting the Reader Ever-so-slightly Off-kilter

Talbot Hook

Fiction editor Josh Michael  interviews Issue #55 fiction author Talbot Hook. “My goal is for the language to initially sow confusion in the reader, to put them ever-so-slightly off-kilter, but for them to eventually get used to it.”                                 ~Talbot Hook “Gone from the World” is deeply entrenched […]

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Fiction Reader Josh Michael interviewed writer Iris Litt

Iris Litt

Fiction Reader Josh Michael interviewed writer Iris Litt about her piece “Return or Exchange” which appears in Issue #50. Here is Iris’s tongue-in-cheek commentary about marriage and relationships.   “Return or Exchange” is a tongue-in-cheek commentary about marriage and relationships, where future coupling has most, if not all, of the emotion taken out of it. […]