(Highlights) CARMEN MARIA MACHADO

April 05, 2022/ Interviewed by Sorella Lark

Lambda Literary Award Winning Author of In the Dream House & Her Body and Other Parties

I would say that I write liminal fantasy. I write surrealist work and literary fiction. I write horror. Horror is probably the genre that speaks to me the most. I feel horror is the genre that I feel the most affinity towards. For me, that is the sweet spot where the beautiful and the grotesque meet each other. It's very interesting to me, and I think encouraging people to look at certain ideas that are horrifying, making them beautiful and interesting, that intersection of beauty and pain, humor and darkness, it’s the most interesting place.

April 05, 2022

CARMEN MARIA MACHADO

April 05, 2022/ Interviewed by Sorella Lark

Lambda Literary Award Winning Author of In the Dream House & Her Body and Other Parties

March 24, 2022

(Highlights) ALI SCHOUTEN

March 24, 2022/ Interviewed by Mia Funk & Katherine Ritter

Emmy-Nominated Showrunner, Executive Producer & Writer of iCarly

What we deal more in the second season with how your online persona and your real-life persona sometimes can't help but be at odds with one another. In the first episode back we get into how women are treated, how women in relationships are treated online. In a later episode, we deal with how women are or are not allowed to express their anger online as content creators. So it’s something we talked a lot about in the room. That fracturing of self, that even in a goofy show that's very lighthearted and entertaining, it’s something that we do discuss and try to sneak little tidbits in there.

March 24, 2022

ALI SCHOUTEN

March 24, 2022/ Interviewed by Mia Funk & Katherine Ritter

Emmy-Nominated Showrunner, Executive Producer & Writer of iCarly

January 14, 2022

MARK SELIGER

January 14, 2022/ Interviewed by Mia Funk

Photographer

I always tell people the worst picture can ever take is one you don't take. And that is a simple philosophy. If you don't go out there and do the work, then you will never know. You may think there's going to be another great snowstorm. You might think there's going to be another great moment where a block is going to have a certain kind of rhythm or a culture is going to have a certain amount of innocence or a musician is going to be as reluctant or vulnerable or sympathetic. You just have to embrace the moment and do the work.