The New York Times reviews Marra’s new collection of linked stories and dubs it "extraordinary," "almost unbearably moving," and a “miracle of a book.”

The Nation praises Keene’s latest collection of stories as having "grace, an agile and often vicious wit, and a stubborn, crackling beauty."

In the Juneau Empire, Kantner discusses discusses writing with dyslexia, his latest book, Swallowed by the Great Land, and why it's often easier to tell the stories of the wild as fiction.

In The Paris Review, Sullivan searches for the mysterious muse behind the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction."

Hnath, who the New York Times calls “one of the freshest playwriting voices to emerge in the past five years,” is the recipient of the first National Arts Club Kesselring Prize in six years for The Christians.

NPR publishes a selection from Marra’s latest collection of short stories.

Kirkus Reviews declares of Chee’s upcoming novel about one woman’s rise from empress’s maid to opera singer, "This story demands, and repays, close attention."

In BOMB Magazine, Keene and fellow writer Tonya Foster discuss the ontology of grief and how poetry offers a form of resistance to oppression.

In Fiction Writers Review, Heathcock interviews Elise Blackwell about the implications of “police tape around content” and why they both cried reading Charlotte’s Web.

Johnson lists the books that have most influenced his writing, including works by fellow Whiting winners Akhil Sharma and Daniel Orozco.