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Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize Winner Dawn D'Aries

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews

Dawn D’Aries was a finalist for the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction. “The Super’s Wife” represents parts pulled together from a full-length work of creative nonfiction. As an editor and journalist, she has written on a variety of news and feature topics, and counts The Rumpus among her most recent creative nonfiction credits....

Catching Up with 2020 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize Winner Daniel Schonning

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews

Daniel Schonning is the poetry winner of the 2020 Crazyhorse Prizes contest. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Puerto del Sol, Guesthouse, and elsewhere. He studies and teaches in Colorado, where he is currently working on a book of abecedarians. CH: How would you describe yourself as both a person and...

Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize Finalist Bridget Lyons

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews

Bridget A. Lyons is a writer and editor living in Santa Cruz, California. A graduate of Harvard University, she holds an MFA from Northern Arizona University and has had previous lives as a middle school teacher, wilderness guide, yoga instructor, energy bar maker, and graphic designer. Bridget is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has...

Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize Winner Jack Ortiz

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews

Jack Ortiz received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he won the August Derleth Prize. “They’re More Afraid of You” is his first published story. … … … … … CH: How did you first hear about Crazyhorse? JO: When I was an undergrad, I was researching fiction contests, and I submitted to...

Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize Finalist Mi Jin Kim

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews

Mi Jin Kim is a Los Angeles native who currently lives and writes in Seoul, South Korea. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan, where she was a recipient of the Henfield Prize and the FrederickBusch Prize. “The Prince” is her first published story. CH: How did you first hear...

The Art of Translation: A Conversation with Poetry Translations Editor, Scott Minar

March 28, 2018 | interviews, news

A Conversation with Crazyhorse Poetry Translations Editor, Scott Minar and MFA ’18 Poetry student Angela Pilson When and how did you first become interested in translations? That’s a difficult question for me because I think I’ve always been interested in them. I grew up in a bilingual neighborhood in Cleveland and my household was bilingual–Italian and English....