In this episode of The Common’s Contributors in Conversation podcast, contributors Helen Hooper and Megan Staffel discuss two stories from Issue 6, Staffel’s “Mischief” and Hooper’s “Meetings.”
SINDYA BHANOO
Food makes its way into many of my stories. I don’t do it consciously. But I am always trying to catch my characters during moments when they’re letting their guard down...and that often happens during mealtimes.
MEERA NAIR
I'm a little obsessed with trees. I've always had a weird kind of attachment to them. I grew up with them all around me, because I used to go home to Kerala, where my family is from in India, and we have a big farm and a mango grove.
ELLEN DORÉ WATSON
Unless a poem surprises me when I’m writing it, it's not going to make it. The two things I need from a poem, both as a writer or a reader, are intentionality and surprise.
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