Poet Mansi Dahal speaks with Ana Hein about her debut collection, Women in Marigold, as well as longing, matrilineal legacies, and the obsessive beauty of the image in poetry.

poetry by Ana Hein

You wouldn’t expect a show centered on undead, blood-drinking, immortal creatures of the night to be the perfect model for how to write personal narrative, but you’d certainly be pleasantly surpris…

Ojeda explores abstract ideas and interiority through her characters, creating not a sequence of events that build into a plot per se, but a series of interlocking ideas.

Horror is a genre of solitude

Swapping laptops at coffee shops, asking for ideas, sending emails and texts and voice notes are essential to my art

In this break-up story, video games, non-player characters and playable characters give insight into what exactly happened in this romantic relationship.

...I had not yet read horror written by another woman with such a rich, arresting evocation of female sexuality.