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Chelsea Voulgares grew up in a football town in Ohio, trapping lightning bugs, watching bad horror movies, and singing in the show choir. Now she lives in the suburbs of Chicago, where she is working on a collection of short stories and a novel. Follow her @chelsvoulgares or visit her at www.chelseavoulgares.com
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Interview with Elaine Castillo

I’m excited to share my latest interview in The Rumpus. It’s my tenth interview for them!

I spoke with Elaine Castillo about her novel Moderation. 

From the introduction to the interview:

Moderation is a novel about tech and about love, but it is also a novel about what it means to be part of the Filipino-American community, and about how debt and labor shape American life.

I talked with Castillo over email about content moderation, about repressed, eldest sibling Earth sign fiction, and about what it means to take on the topics of labor and personal trauma in American life.

You can read our discussion here. 

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Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch!

I haven’t posted in awhile, but I am excited to share my new interview in The Rumpus. I spoke with Lidia Yuknavitch about her new memoir Reading the Waves.

From the introduction to the interview:

Reading the Waves (Riverhead Books, 2025) takes us from the forests of Oregon to the basements and pools of Texas and back again as she tells stories from her life: about the death of her ex-husband, about her life as a teenager and her relationship with her mother, and about her family life with her husband and son. Through her eyes, we watch with awe as a white hummingbird hovers in the air and we stand on the top of a construction crane, looking down at the ground with fear and exhilaration in equal measure. Each part of Reading the Waves is an adventure while at the same time a meditation on love, death, and the act of artistic creation.

You can find our discussion here!

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Join Me at Seminary Co-Op

I’m excited to share an event happening in Hyde Park later this fall. I’ll be at The Seminary Co-Op book store on Tuesday, November 28th to discuss Christy Prahl’s debut book of poetry, We Are Reckless, out now from Cornerstone Press. Come join us at 6pm for poems and conversation! Link to event here.

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Interview with Matthew Salesses

The old adage “write what you know” often lends itself to books about writers and artists, or drinking and family, or a combination of all four. For Matthew Salesses, however, writing what he knew allowed him to create gripping contemporary story about basketball and soap operas. I spoke with Matthew about The Sense of Wonder recently for The Rumpus, and you can read our discussion here.