Author: Lenore Weiss

Lenore Weiss is a poet and fiction writer who lives in Oakland, California. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Lenore serves as the Creative Nonfiction (CNF) Editor for Mud Season Review. She won the Magpie Magazine Clark Closser Memorial Literature Award in Nonfiction and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. Her collection of prose poems, Half-Quilted, was released this year by Bottlecap Press. Her environmental novel, Pulp into Paper, and poetry collection, Video Game Pointers, were published in 2024. Prior poetry collections form a trilogy about love, loss, and mortality. Both her prose and poetry have been widely published. You can read more of her work here.

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The Gray Matter in Reality: An Interview with Sarah McKinley

“Would You Rather” takes the reader through a life-threatening situation. When did you realize you had to write this story?  To be completely honest, this is a story I have tried to avoid writing. It stemmed from a prompt in a grief-writing course that asked me to recall “times you thought you were going to […]

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Starting Anew and Exploring Narratives of Culture

An Interview with Shawn Tran By Creative Nonfiction Associate Editor Lenore Weiss “It must’ve been a difficult decision to make, leaving behind the comfort and familiarity of home to start anew in a foreign land with a different language and culture.” What was your grandmother’s experience while fleeing a war-torn country as you explain in […]

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Finding Authenticity in the Uncomfortable

An Interview with Katherine May Generally, are high schools different in 2022 than the one featured in your story which seems fairly tolerant? Since I graduated from high school twenty years ago, it’s hard for me to know exactly if/how things have changed. As for my high school experience, because I spent two years at […]