KEVIN MALONEY is the author of Cult of Loretta (Lazy Fascist Press, 2015). His fiction has appeared in Hobart, Barrelhouse, The Nervous Breakdown, and a number of other journals and anthologies. He and his wife, Aubrey, live in North Portland.
Currents, an Interview Series with Brian Alan Ellis (Episode 44: Jennifer Wortman)
JENNIFER WORTMAN is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow and the author of the story collection This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love (Split/Lip Press, 2019). She lives with her family in Colorado, where she serves as associate fiction editor for Colorado Review and teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
Currents, an Interview Series with Brian Alan Ellis (Episode 43: Wendy C. Ortiz)
WENDY C. ORTIZ is the author of Excavation: A Memoir (Future Tense Books, 2014), Hollywood Notebook (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018), and Bruja (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016), a “dreamoir.” Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, StoryQuarterly, FENCE, and elsewhere.
Currents, an Interview Series with Brian Alan Ellis (Episode 42: Steve Anwyll)
STEVE ANWYLL is the author of Welfare (Tyrant, 2019). Follow him: @oneloveasshole.
Currents, an Interview Series with Brian Alan Ellis (Episode 41: Babak Lakghomi)
BABAK LAKGHOMI is the author of Floating Notes (Tyrant Books, 2018). His fiction has appeared or forthcoming in NOON, Ninth Letter, New York Tyrant, and Green Mountains Review, among other places. Babak currently lives and writes in Hamilton, Ontario.
Currents, an Interview Series with Brian Alan Ellis (Episode 40: Alex DiFrancesco)
ALEX DIFRANCESCO is a multi-genre writer who has published work in Tin House, The Washington Post, Pacific Standard, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The New Ohio Review, Brevity and more. In 2019, they published their essay collection Psychopomps (Civil Coping Mechanisms Press) and their novel All City (Seven Stories Press), which was a finalist for the Ohioana Book Awards. Their short story collection Transmutation (Seven Stories Press) is forthcoming in 2021. They are the recipient of grants and fellowships from PEN America and Sundress Academy for the Arts, and serve as an assistant editor at Sundress Publications.
Currents, an Interview Series with Brian Alan Ellis (Episode 39: Ryan Ridge)
RYAN RIDGE is the author of five books, most recently New Bad News (Sarabande Books 2020). He has received the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction, the Linda Bruckheimer Prize in Kentucky Literature, and the Kentucky Writers Fellowship for Innovative Writing from the Baltic Writing Residency. His work has appeared in American Book Review, Denver Quarterly, Passages North, Post Road, Salt Hill, and Santa Monica Review, among others places. Ridge is an assistant professor at Weber State University, where he codirects the creative writing program. He also edits the literary magazine Juked.
Currents, an Interview Series with Brian Alan Ellis (Episode 38: Mik Grantham)
MIK GRANTHAM is the founder and co-editor of Disorder Press, which she runs with her brother [Joey Grantham]. She is the author of the poetry collection, HARDCORE (Short Flight/Long Drive Books, 2021), and her work has appeared in Hobart, The Nervous Breakdown, Maudlin House, Fanzine, among others. She lives in New Orleans.