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MOLLY GAUDRY: Hi Shya, thanks so much for taking part in this interview. Tell us, where did the seven-line constraint come from?

Christopher Higgs curates Bright Stupid Confetti. He is the humble author of an amazing chapbook titled Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously (Publishing Genius, 2009), and other of his belletristic prose exists in past/present/future editions of many esteemed literary organs, including, but not limited to:AGNI, Conduit, Post Road, Quarterly West, Salt Hill, No Colony, and Action Yes.  Currently, he is pursuing a doctorate in literature and critical theory at Florida State University, where his primary research involves theorizing a rhizomatic approach to understanding transnational and transhistorical avant-garde / experimental literature.  The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney (Sator Press, 2010) is his first novel. 

Andrew Zornoza is the author of the photo-prose novel, Where I Stay. Born in Houston, Texas, his fiction and essays have appeared in magazines such as Gastronomica, Sleepingfish, Confrontation, Porcupine Literary Arts, CapGun, and Matter Magazine, among others. He has taught at The New School University, Gotham Writers' Workshop, and the ASA Institute.

Blake Butler needs no introduction, which means all I need to say here is that the following interview was conducted using Google Docs between August 10, 2009 and October 18, 2009.

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The Featherproof Tour

Joshua Michael Stewart, poet and editor of Big Toe Review (Where Prose Poems Go To Do Naughty Things), is the author of the chapbooks Ordinary Mysteries (White Heron Press, 2004) and Vintage Gray (Pudding House Press, 2007), as well as a full-length collection, Son of a Minor Key, which is forthcoming from BlazeVOX Books in 2010.

I. Introduction

Darrin Doyle and I crossed paths, very briefly, while he was finishing his PhD at the University of Cincinnati. An undergraduate at the time, I was granted permission to enroll in the graduate fiction workshop to see if graduate school was something I’d like. It is because of fellow students like Darrin that I decided to pursue a master’s degree.