Ron Hogan loves interviewing authors ... and he’s an expert at it.

When he launched Beatrice.com back in 1995, he filled the site with in-depth Q&A pieces. For almost a decade, he published conversations with hundreds of fiction and nonfiction authors about the books they'd written, the craft of writing and living the writer's…

Gretl Claggett: Your latest book, The Paper Garden: An Artist {Begins Her Life’s Work} at 72, is a bold, risky, tour-de-force that defies categorization—released at a time when publishing is playing it safe. Tell us about the genesis of this book, your extensive research, and how you came to intertwine your personal story with the biography of your protagonist, Mrs. Delany, who lived…

Molly Peacock is a writer’s writer: prolific, versatile and courageous with her creative choices. She’s also a consummate teacher—the perfect person with whom to talk about craft …

Gretl Claggett: Molly, your ten books range from poetry to essay collections, and from memoir to a genre-busting hybrid that combines biography, botany, history and memoir in your latest book, …

I admire how Lorna Knowles Blake, in her poetry and essays, “thinks on the page”… and how—through the act of truly thinking on the page—she discovers new organizing principles and new connections between the realms of writing and life …

My first poetry collection concluded with a poem titled “The Art of Translation.” The close third-person speaker (i.e. the speaker looking over the shoulder of the first person) of that poem begins to wonder if what “she is after” is…