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.
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
In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This acclaimed community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join us, you will work in a small group of around 15-20 participants to give and receive feedback on flash narratives.