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Shasta Grant

Shasta Grant grew up in New Hampshire and now lives in Indianapolis. An Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellow, Kenyon Review prize winner, and recipient of writing residencies from Hedgebrook and The Kerouac Project, she holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of the chapbook Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home, a senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly, and co-founder of Brown Bag Lit. Her debut novel, When We Were Feral, is forthcoming from Regal House in June 2026.

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Interviewer in Smokelong Quarterly

Interview: Smoke Signals with Valerie Hughes

Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with
Shayla Frandsen

Interview: “More than enough” — An Interview With Quarterly Guest Editor Jennifer Wortman

Interview: In and Out of Focus: An Interview with Hananah Zaheer, Guest Editor Issue 75

Interview: “Good, clean prose”– An Interview With Quarterly Guest Editor Dustin M. Hoffman

Interview: “Uncomfortable Places”: An Interview with Spring Quarterly Guest Editor Amber Sparks

Interview: “Haunting an audience”: An Interview With Quarterly Guest Editor Steve Edwards

Interview: Creative Writing Students Read the Queue!

Interview: “Leap across years”: An Interview With Quarterly Guest Editor Venita Blackburn

Interview: “Between emotion and restraint”: An Interview With Quarterly Guest Editor Sara Lippmann

Interview: “Crush me”: An Interview With Quarterly Guest Editor Sara Lippmann

Interview: “To embrace mystery”: An Interview With Guest Reader Jen Julian

Interview: “The gift of trust”: An Interview With Guest Reader María Alejandra Barrios

Interview: “Heartbreaking details”: An Interview With Guest Reader Krys Malcom Belc

Interview: “Broken, scattered pieces”: An Interview With Guest Reader Kate Finegan

Interview: “Urgency and intensity”: An Interview With Guest Reader Jennifer Wortman

Interview: “One metamorphosis after another”: An Interview With Guest Reader Christopher Santantasio

Interview: “Don’t hold back”: An Interview With Guest Reader Megan Pillow

Interview: “Within reach”: An Interview With Guest Reader Michael Czyzniejewski

Interview: “Expand my heart”: An Interview With Guest Reader Sara Lippmann

Interview: “Shock of emotion”: An Interview With Guest Reader Sumita Mukherji

Interview: “Drawn to dichotomy”: An Interview With Guest Reader Brooke Fossey

Interview: Students read the queue!

Interview: “The funny/sad thing”: An Interview With Guest Reader Jeff Landon

Interview: “Maybe even another world”: An Interview with Guest Reader Laird Hunt

Interview: “Beyond my perception”: An Interview with Guest Reader Ahsan Butt

Interview: “Jarred, challenged, devastated”: An Interview with Guest Reader Nicole Rivas

Interview: “A sense of movement”: An Interview With Guest Reader Charmaine Wilkerson

Interview: “This Expansive Quality”: An Interview With Guest Reader Wendy J. Fox

Interview: “A constellation of questions”: An Interview With Guest Reader Janika Oza

Interview: “Head-and-heart hitters”: An Interview With Guest Reader Rupert Dastur

Interview: “Voice is the thing”: An Interview With Guest Reader Chase Burke

Interview: Editor’s Choice Week: An Interview with Christopher Allen

Interview: “Shards and Gems”: An Interview With Guest Reader Grant Faulkner

Interview: “A strange and wondrous transformation”: An Interview With Guest Reader Ingrid Jendrzejewski

Interview: “Willing to Fail”: An Interview With Guest Reader Elisabeth Ingram Wallace

Interview: “Like Some Gigantic Shining Pearl”: An Interview With Guest Reader Lori Sambol Brody

Interview: “Like Focusing a Camera”: An Interview With Guest Reader Kim Magowan

Interview: “Care for Language”: An Interview With Guest Reader Michael Don

Interview: “Understanding and release”: An Interview With Guest Reader Myfanwy Collins

Interview: “A Sense of Discovery”: An Interview With Guest Reader Zach Powers

Interview: “That joy, that sorrow”: An Interview With Guest Editor Devin Kelly

Interview: “More than a phase”: An Interview With Guest Reader Alvin Park

Interview: “Fresh as hell”: An Interview with Guest Reader Tyler Barton

Interview: Smoke & Mirrors: An Interview with S.L. Bailey

Interview: “Open the door”: An Interview With Guest Reader Eliezra Schaffzin

Interview: “Dance until 2am”: An Interview With Guest Reader Erin Fitzgerald

Interview: “What we pass down”: An Interview With Guest Reader Sharmini Aphrodite

Interview: “Light up the heart”: An Interview With Guest Reader Gay Degani

Interview: “A decade of transformation”: An Interview With Guest Reader Ashley Inguanta

Interview: “Layers of meaning”: An Interview With Guest Reader Eva Wong Nava

Interview: “A shot of espresso”: An Interview With Guest Reader Kate Gehan

Interview: “Ride the beat”: An Interview With Guest Reader Ron A. Austin

Interview: “Delight me”: An Interview With Guest Editor Audra Kerr Brown

Interview: “The thing you love”: An Interview With Guest Reader Leonora Desar

Interview: “Narrative Risk”: An Interview With Guest Reader Anne Rasmussen

Interview: “Very small, tender things”: An Interview With Guest Reader Molia Dumbleton

Interview: “A Willingness to Go”: An Interview with Guest Reader Bix Gabriel

Interview: “There’s a story in everything”: An Interview With Guest Reader Hillary Leftwich

Interview: “Elegant falsehoods”: An Interview With Guest Reader Nancy Au

Interview: “A single word”: An Interview with Guest Reader Qiana Towns

Interview: “The lines are blurred”: An Interview with Guest Reader Michelle Elvy

Interview: “The rawness of the words”: An Interview with Guest Reader James Claffey

Interview: “Fully losing yourself”: An Interview with Guest Reader Tim Fitts

Interview: “Authentic connection”: An Interview with Guest Reader R. Cross

Interview: “Fireworks in your brain”: An Interview with Guest Readers Ryan Ridge & Mel Bosworth

Interview: “Two Worlds”: An Interview with Guest Reader Christopher James

Interview: “Make me laugh”: An Interview with Guest Reader Amanda Miska

Interview: “As strong as espresso:” An Interview with Guest Reader Monet Patrice Thomas

Interview: “A cross-country hike in the dark”: An Interview with Guest Reader James Tate Hill

Interview: “Developing a better eye”: An Interview with Guest Reader Christopher Gonzalez

Interview: “Some kind of honest, unsentimental feeling”: An Interview with Guest Reader Helen Rye

Interview: “One sentence to the next”: An Interview with Guest Reader Hedgie Choi

Interview: “Hilarious and gorgeous and utterly unhinged”: An Interview with Guest Reader Nickalus Rupert

Interview: “beauty, poignancy, newness”: An Interview with Christopher Allen

Interview: “No wasted space”: An Interview with Guest Reader Michael B. Tager

Interview: “Take me to new places”: An Interview with Guest Reader Jude Higgins

Interview: “Fierce fiction”: An Interview with Guest Reader April Bradley

Interview: Editor’s Choice Week: An Interview with Christopher Allen

Interview: “Show me you love words”: An Interview with Guest Reader Chauna Craig

Interview: Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Tamara Schuyler

Interview: “Tell me something impossible is true”: An Interview With Guest Reader Jennifer Tseng

Interview: “Tiny stories can do incredible things”–An Interview With Guest Reader Kim Winternheimer

Interview: “Problems of Regret and Nostalgia”: An Interview with Guest Reader Meagan Cass

Interview: “Recovering What They’ve Lost” — An Interview with Guest Reader Bernard Grant

Interview: “Move with confidence”: An Interview with Guest Reader SJ Sindu

Interview: “One Sentence at a Time”: An Interview With Guest Reader Emma Smith-Stevens

Interview: Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Michele Finn Johnson

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