An Interview with Kendra Mills by Jonah Meyer, Mud Season Review Poetry Editor Poetry feels more natural to me than other kinds of writing, and writing feels more natural to me than other forms of expression […] Poetry seems intrinsically auto-fictional to me, the interpolation of the two forms can occur naturally and without explanation. […]

An Interview with Featured Artist Linda Laino by Kristin LaFollette, Mud Season Review Art Editor I’ve always had the sense in this unpredictable and spontaneous country that I never know what is going to happen when I walk out my door. I have the same feeling when I pick up a paintbrush.” Linda Laino You […]

An Interview with Jaye Nasir by Mark Robinson, Mud Season Review Associate Poetry Editor “Passing somebody on the street and looking into their face and seeing them, their loneliness, their hope, their tiredness. Seeing the color beneath the skin. Seeing everything glow from the inside.” Jaye Nasir You mention that you have been writing prose […]

An Interview with Antonietta Trapani “I watched all of James Dean’s movies when I was a teenager. Grace Kelly movies too. But I was just naturally attracted to Dean’s energy in his movies. It always struck me that no matter what character he was playing, there was always something simmering underneath, some potential for the […]

An Interview with Featured Artist Kirsty Greenwood by Kristin LaFollette, Mud Season Review Art Editor “I feel my artwork is related through the exploration of change—metamorphosis—and I’m very much drawn to narratives in which that is the central theme.” Kirsty Greenwood Thanks so much for letting us feature this gorgeous portfolio in #62 of Mud […]

An Interview with Deborah Thompson by Suzanne Guess, Mud Season Review Nonfiction Editor “Whenever I despair (i.e. often) that I can never achieve that quality of the many amazing writers around me, I remind myself that my job is not to try to write with the charisma of other people but merely to write my […]

An Interview with Christian Hanz Lozada by Jonah Meyer, Mud Season Review Poetry Editor “It’s like the dude on the dance floor whose arms are flailing to their own beat. Yeah, we’re looking, but not because they’re cool – it’s because we don’t want to get randomly smacked.” Christian Hanz Lozada You’ve described yourself as […]

An Interview with Featured Artist Kelly DuMar by Kristin LaFollette, Mud Season Review Art Editor “That’s the takeaway I’m aiming for as a therapist, workshop facilitator, or coach: deep listening, an authentic invitation to share truth and beauty, and permission to write no matter what.” Kelly DuMar Thank you for contributing your artwork to #61 […]

An Interview with Karen Beatty by Rebecca O’Bern, Mud Season Review Co-Editor-in-Chief “Applied psychology can help us find the courage to be introspective—to authentically know ourselves and others. Being willing to examine and let flow who you are—that is definitely part of the creative process.” Karen Beatty Your creative nonfiction piece, “Snake Bits,” appears in […]

An Interview with Elena Sichrovsky by Ann Fisher, Mud Season Review Fiction Co-Editor “I firmly believe that having an audience for your first drafts and receiving feedback is essential to becoming a good writer.” Elena Sichrovsky Our readers found “did it hurt when you fell” hauntingly beautiful. Tell us a bit about how you found […]

An Interview with Kayann Short by Coty Poynter, Mud Season Review Creative Nonfiction Editor “I’ve always loved Annie Lamott’s idea of the ‘shitty first draft.’” Kayann Short “Front Range Triptych” is a wonderful essay filled with some lovely, beautiful moments. There’s something about each section that feels, for a lack of better words, incredibly human. […]

An Interview with Amy Barnes   By Madeline DeLuca, Mud Season Review Fiction Co-Editor “I think I would be more sad to only have one piece of literature to remember. I like my scattered snatches of remembered characters and stories.” Amy Barnes What—or who—inspired this story? Part of the inspiration does come from the title reference […]

A Conversation with Featured Poet Tara Mesalik MacMahon by Malisa Garlieb, Mud Season Review Poetry Editor “This poem needed five years to find its enlightened middle.” Tara Mesalik MacMahon 1.  Your poems in Mud Season Review flicker with memories of childhood, a brother, and parental relationships. What brought about the writing of these poems? What do you […]

An interview with featured artist Paul Rabinowitz by Kristin LaFollette, Mud Season Review Art Editor “Purposefully, I had never seen most of the artists before meeting them to take their portraits—only witnessed their art.” Paul Rabinowitz We’re so excited to have your photography portfolio as the featured art in #60 of Mud Season Review. When […]

Creative Nonfiction Editor Coty Poynter interviews writer Mike Wilson. Read Wilson’s essay “Memory Unit” here. “What sticks in our craw as a memory is part of the experience we haven’t brought fully to consciousness.” Mike Wilson “Memory Unit” approaches dementia and its effects, topics that can be difficult to write about head-on. The narrative doesn’t […]

Fiction Editor Ann Fisher interviews author Kimm Brockett Stammen. Read Brockett Stammen’s story “Hannie’s House” here. “A lot of times I don’t know what a story is really about, or it’s about six different things and it won’t choose.” Kimm Brockett Stammen Our readers found the voices in “Hannie’s House” particularly compelling, and the relationship […]

Poetry Editor Malisa Garlieb interviews poet Romana Iorga. Read Iorga’s portfolio of poems here. “Nothing is quite as rewarding and revelatory as the moment when a line alights on the page as if out of thin air.” Romana Iorga The poem “Liminality” has arresting, dream-like images, such as the occult bookshop with doors “shaped like […]

Art Editor Kristin LaFollette interviews Featured Artist Leah Dockrill. View Dockrill’s portfolio here. “Immediacy is the chief characteristic of watercolour. But that medium also has its limitations.” -Leah Dockrill I’m so glad we could feature this collage portfolio in #59 of Mud Season Review. Talk to us about this collage series. What inspired these collages, and […]

Creative Nonfiction Co-Editor Coty Poynter interviews writer Anna Oberg. Read Oberg’s essay “Devonia Street” here. I know I have arrived at the ending, when I feel the thing in me that has been holding its breath has exhaled. —Anna Oberg “Devonia Street” is a very intimate essay that revolves around this idea of revisitation, be […]

Co-Editor-in-Chief Ashley Hajimirsadeghi interviews poet Julia Morris Paul. Read Paul’s portfolio of poems here. I want to provide insight into the disease of addiction through my poetry, but I want my poems to work as art, as well.                       —Julia Morris Paul In these poems, you […]

Associate Fiction Editor Madeline DeLuca interviews author Shih-Li Kow. Read Kow’s story “Golden Boys” here. Motherhood might be rewarding but it isn’t romantic in the Hallmark greeting-card way. —Shih-Li Kow   A powerful scene in “Golden Boys” is when Noah sees Kentucky Chan killing the rabbit and Ti Yen calls them “savages.” Why did you […]