The Peak

Welcome to Small Town Dispatches, a new feature on The Peak that recognizes the efforts of sustaining a writing practice in places with unconventional resources. In this installment, Special Features editor Nadeen Kharputly interviews Shenandoah contributor Melissa Helton about living in Hindman, Kentucky.

Helena Pantsis discusses her vision, including original artwork and genre-defying writing, for their debut story anthology. Their artwork “Again Boy” was featured in issue 73.2.

Associate editor Moriah Katz and author Dorsía Smith Silva discuss motherhood, healing within the family unit, and the creative process behind the author’s debut poetry collection, In Inheritance of Drowning. Smith Silva’s poem, “I Asked About Desire” is featured in volume 73.1

Shenandoah contributor Luisa A. Igloria talks about the themes and origins of her new poetry collection, as well as her time as Virginia’s Poet Laureate.

Four of Shenandoah’s editors talk books that have inspired them, books they wish they had read, and books they think more people should read.

Welcome to Small Town Dispatches, a new feature on The Peak that recognizes the efforts of sustaining a writing practice in places with unconventional resources. In this installment, Special Features Editor Nadeen Kharputly interviews Shenandoah contributor Shamala Gallagher about living in Athens, Georgia.

Welcome to Small Town Dispatches, a new feature on The Peak that recognizes the efforts of sustaining a writing practice in places with unconventional resources. In this installment, Special Features Editor Nadeen Kharputly interviews Shenandoah contributor Laura Villareal about living in Lockhart, Texas.

David Siew Hii, Shenandoah’s associate poetry editor, interviews poets! To showcase their voices, the questions in the interview were removed, leaving behind only the voice of the writer. In this interview, Majda Gama talks about being an accidental Virginian, what makes a lifestyle, cats from the Middle East, and how poetry and prose party differently. Read her poem Graybeal-Gowen Prize-winning poem, “In Great Aunt Noor’s Salon,” here.

Intern Chloe Duensing emailed with editorial fellow Mubanga Kalimamukwento to discuss her life, her work, and what she is looks for as an editor.