Author: Princess Zuri McCann

Princess Zuri McCann is a poetry reader for Mud Season Review. She is from New Haven, CT. She holds a BA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing. She is also currently pursuing a Master of Library and Information Science. Her poems have appeared in Call + Response Journal, Plainsongs, and Here: a poetry journal. She lives in Hamden, CT and enjoys working in libraries.

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Stillness to Acknowledge the Fleeting: An interview with Stacy Miller

Q. Your bio mentions that you have two sons. How does motherhood influence your writing? A. I won’t get into the complicated journey of how I became a mother, but it’s safe to say that it’s not something that I thought was possible for me well into my 30s. So, my boys – currently 14 […]

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Vulnerability as Strength: An Interview with Jasmine Vallejo-Love

Jasmine Vallejo-Love is a disabled Afro-Puerto Rican American poet and writer living in Los Angeles. A Diana Woods Memorial Award finalist, 2025 Lambda Literary Fellow, and selected for PEN America’s Emerging Voices workshop, her work has been anthologized and appears in journals such as Lunch Ticket and Cholla Needles.

These poems carry some vulnerability. Could you talk more about writing poems that capture vulnerability? Vulnerability can often be looked upon as a weakness, but I see it as a strength because it’s an act of bravery to be authentic, and in the case of these poems, to display your fear and truth on the […]

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Between the Believer and the Skeptic: An Interview with Eli Karren

I love the line “you wouldn’t like it here.” What makes the speaker so sure there is nothing on the other side of death? Do you agree with the ghost father, who would rather be elsewhere? Thank you, I love that line, too. Actually, after hearing either my mother or grandmother retell that dream, I […]