Apogee Journal

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“Shamelessly Lyrical and Ecstatic”: An Interview with Kemi Alabi

Alabi writes a Black queer and trans body politic—linguistically exciting and rigorous

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October 27, 2022

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“The Beauty Is Where the Play Is”: A Conversation with Paige Clark on "She is Haunted"

Paige Clark’s debut collection of linked stories, She Is Haunted, explores the shifting boundaries of selfhood amid loss and grief.

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September 1, 2022

Image Description: The cover of "Gods of Want" and Chang's photo side by side.

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The Collective Hungers of Women: K-Ming Chang on “Gods of Want” and the Pluralistic “I”

Chang speaks on the poetic and narrative mechanisms at work in her short story collection, Gods of Want.

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Isabella Pechaty

August 30, 2022

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“Writing, I Can’t Waste Time”: Alejandro Varela & the Political Public Health Novel

In Alejandro Varela’s debut novel, The Town of Babylon, the protagonist Andrés returns to his suburban hometown to help his ailing father.

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Alexandra Watson

August 2, 2022

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Tender Excavations: Retelling Origin Stories in Adoption Narratives

"In Cleave, erasure provides me with a poetic space to reckon with the erasure that happens as a result of adoption."

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August 3, 2021

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What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family

Food is active in these pages — it heals, identifies, connects, and resists.

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July 12, 2021

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Respecting the Pain of the Poem

An Interview with Safia Jama

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Alexandra Watson

November 18, 2020

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Motherhood, Writing Out of Stereotypes, and LA's Koreatown

An Interview with Nancy Jooyoun Kim

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Crystal Hana Kim

September 1, 2020

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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

A Conversation with Deesha Philyaw

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August 18, 2020

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Writing from the Inside Out: A Roundtable on AfroSurrealism

A Conversation with Boots Riley, Opal Moore, Kyla Marshell, and Jeffery Renard Allen

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June 3, 2020