Interviews

Eduardo C. Corral is the author of Guillotine, which won the 2021 Lamda Literary Award for Best Gay Poetry and was longlisted for a National Book Award. His first book, Slow Lightning, won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets, making him the first Latino recipient of the award.

He has received numerous honors and awards, including the Discovery/The Nation Award, the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, writing residencies to MacDowell and Yaddo, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Holmes National Poetry Prize and the Hodder Fellowship, both from Princeton University. He was a founding fellow of the CantoMundo Writers Conference.

His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2012, New England Review, Ploughshares, and The New York Times. He teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at North Carolina State University and lives in North Carolina.

Hawa Allan is an attorney and author who lives and works in New York City. She is a lecturer at the New School and an essay editor at The Offing. Her work has been published in the Chicago Tribune, Los Angles Review of Books, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Baffler, and Tricycle Magazine among others.

Her book Insurrection elegantly explores the paradoxical state of Black citizenship in the United States as it relates to the under-studied Insurrection Act of 1807. By weaving together philosophy, her personal narratives, and in-depth historical research, Allan traces the uses of the Insurrection Act throughout the nation’s history and its impact on society today. Grounded in both the affective and objective, Insurrection is a vital contribution to evolving understandings of how systemic racism, government power, and protest interact in the United States.