NEIU Creative Writing

Carrboro Author Elisa Faison On Polyamory, Domestic Fiction, and Her Debut Novel 'Skin Contact' 'Skin Contact' has the buzzy premise of a couple navigating an open marriage. It's as interested in friendships and family as it is romance.

Nature and Judaism: A Conversation with Joel Greenberg - Chicago Review of Books Our interview with Joel Greenberg on his new book, "To Life: Jews Exploring Nature"

An English Language Debut That Translates the Violence Beneath a Neighborhood - Electric Literature THE SUMMER OF THE SERPENT author Cecilia Eudave and translator Robin Myers discuss the ordinary cruelties that shape a society

Reyna Grande’s Migrant Heart: Talking about Things She Can’t Forget, by Cleyvis Natera An interview with Reyna Grande, author of Migrant Heart: Essays about Things I Can't Forget

‘I had a really crippling break’: how author Michael Thomas lost 20 years to mania, depression and more In 2006 the novel Man Gone Down made Thomas famous and won him a €100,000 prize. He expected to produce a follow-up within a year – but life had other plans

Chelsea Rathburn on the Unexpected Beauty of the “Research Dead-End” This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Earlier this summer, our geriatric air conditioner stopped working, bringing an abrupt end to a few years of never-quite-c…

Smudging the Dark: An Interview with Catherine Pierce At the heart of this book is a desire to smudge the dark line we often draw between “human” and “animal.” Catherine Pierce is the author of the poetry collections Danger Days, The Tornado Is the World, The Girls of Peculiar, and Famous Last Words, as well as the memoir Foxes for Everybody. H...

August 2026 Poem-a-Day Guest Editor Charif Shanahan Listen to a short Q&A where Charif Shanahan discusses his curatorial process for Poem-a-Day.

H.Y. Hanna on Craving Slow, Atmospheric Suspense in the Era of Short Attention We live in an age that worships the cult of speed. Our attention span, we’ve been told, has shrunk to barely a minute; journalists are reduced to writing in skimmable subheadings—and any anecdote o…

Attuned to the Multitudes: The Role of Time and Place in the Literary Imagination Calling on June Jordan and E. L. Doctorow, Emily Dickinson and Tupac Shakur, an acclaimed poet and nonfiction writer parses how the past is ever-present, and how our setting becomes our writing.