Donato Martinez has a captivating voice. His poetry is like music, it lives and breathes within the pages of Touch The Sky. Every poem brought forth so much emotion within me, the words painted the imagery of his childhood and his home so well. I could feel the anger, the pain, the joy, and the…

Ilana Bean is an instructor, writer, and MFA candidate at the University of Iowa. You can find her on Instagram (@i.m.bean) and at her website: https://www.ilanabean.com Check her out! What is creative nonfiction? How is it different from essay writing/informative writing? Creative nonfiction is notoriously hard to define—I actually just texted my MFA cohort to see…

How would you define “drama” as a category in creative writing? First answer: A series of births and deaths. Small ones, mostly. Second answer: Fun! What drew you to playwriting? What do you think makes it unique from other genres? My mother took me to Borders. We sat with stacks of books and magazines. She…