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Managing Editor Lily Davenport:<\/strong> I\u2019ve been doing editorial work, in one capacity or another, for most of the past ten years. In all that time\u2014across three very different literary magazines, one press, three years of adjuncting manuscript-editing courses, two editions of my beloved Chicago Manual of Style<\/em>, and too many Microsoft Word updates to count\u2014the following have remained constants. They make up my editorial philosophy, insofar as I have one; I issue regular reminders about them to myself, and they\u2019re a major part of what I hope the graduate students and undergraduate co-op I now help mentor will walk away from their time at The Cincinnati Review<\/em> remembering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019re never too good to look it up.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have to understand how a thing is made, before you can help make it better.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You aren\u2019t doing this alone<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I\u2019ll start with the first one. Copyediting is, in many ways, a job centered on looking things up. It does not require an encyclopedic memory, nor a faultless grasp of spelling; what matters is that you know the kinds of things you should question in reading a piece, and where to go to get those questions answered.\u00a0Is that a permanently hyphenated compound, or a temporary one? How long do ceramics need to dry, before you can fire them? Should you italicize the title of an unpublished book-length manuscript?<\/em>\u00a0Copyediting asks the practitioner to adopt an iterative, cyclical way of reading, one that allows for both big-picture questions about logic and continuity, and (seemingly) small ones about capitalization or when to use a numeral in place of spelling a number out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a humbling process. Like everyone, I am frequently wrong; the twin guardrails of multiple readings and of looking up everything I can think of, even when I\u2019m convinced of my own correctness, help keep my wrongs temporary instead of persistent. Time and practice have helped me learn trust in my own instincts and judgment about what needs to be investigated, both of which are more useful and more durable than plain recall. I\u2019m never going to ascend to a transcendent state in which I can mentally page through the\u00a0Manual<\/em>\u00a0at will\u2014but then, I wouldn\u2019t want to, because I find the act of looking things up inherently rewarding. A colleague recently joked that I have\u00a0a close personal relationship\u00a0<\/em>to the\u00a0<\/em>Manual, but I admit that it\u2019s a little bit true; there are passages that feel like friends when I revisit them, so much so that I silently greet them the way I do my office, when I arrive on campus at the start of each day:\u00a0Hello again! How nice it is to see you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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I feel a little ridiculous even writing about this next one in detail, because it seems so self-evident. But it can also be easy to forget, in the hurly-burly of searching through the dictionary and the\u00a0Manual<\/em>\u00a0and whatever secondary sources are necessary for a given piece, that the first step in any editorial process is reading and listening. Good editing is invisible to the piece\u2019s final readers; I\u2019m there to help the writer realize their work as the finest version of itself, not to force it into alignment with my personal vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working for a literary magazine, however, introduces an additional wrinkle to this process, in that it requires a copyeditor to hold the writer\u2019s goals and vision in tandem with those of the publication. Most of the time, these things align very closely; at the CR<\/em>, our genre and student editors evaluate submissions in part for exactly this, and writing that is fundamentally at odds with our values and approach is unlikely to find a home here. All the same, each issue of the magazine holds many pieces, and inevitably they take on different valences, or place different emphases, when set beside each other than any of them would possess in isolation. Ensuring some level of consistency across the entire issue in matters of style (and I do mean style in the\u00a0Manual<\/em>\u00a0sense, not in the sense of voice or aesthetic) can help bring those relationships into focus, and sustain the sense of cohesion that makes a literary magazine distinctively itself.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And, finally: When I start reading a new book, I often turn to the acknowledgements before anything else. I love reading these expressions of gratitude to families, teachers, fellowships, archives, friends, pets, agents, (of course) editors, and all the other people, places, and things that can contribute to a book\u2019s concrete existence in the world, because they speak so directly to the basic fact that writing does not take place in a vacuum. Even the most independent-minded writer needs help; all books are, in one way or another, collaborations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editing is no different. It\u2019s a solitary job in many ways (in that it\u2019s generally done by one person at a time, reading one Word document at a time), but it\u2019s also fundamentally an act of community that, by assisting a piece to become its best self, helps to foster an ongoing relationship between reader and work. And the editing process itself is often a communal affair; at the CR<\/em>, I run a weekly meeting in which the student editors, the other permanent staff, and I read through an upcoming miCRo together and discuss prospective changes. When I consult the\u00a0Manual<\/em>\u00a0or the dictionary, I\u2019m turning to resources made by other people; similarly, I\u2019m never embarrassed to put an editing question to the rest of the CR<\/em> team for shared consideration, or to call a friend with editorial or subject-matter expertise. Copyediting is essentially collaborative, and essentially human.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Coda: Here is a more literal kind of introduction, the kind that tells you less about how I hope to do this job and more about what sort of person will be doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hi, I\u2019m Lily. I live in an attic with my two cats. I write fantasy and science fiction. I have a large number of enthusiasms, so here are some of them: baking, handcrafts, the novels of Ann Leckie, the music of Will Wood, dinosaurs, tabletop role-playing games,\u00a0Disco Elysium<\/em>. I graduated from UC\u2019s creative writing PhD program in 2025, and worked for the University Honors Program for just over a year afterward. Returning to the UC English Department, and especially to the CR<\/em>, is the dream job that I never allowed myself to actually dream of, because it seemed so preposterous that it could ever happen. But dream job it is: everything I could possibly have hoped I\u2019d get to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I owe the fact that I walked out of graduate school and straight into a full-time job in higher ed to the mentorship and support that I received as a student editor here. The years that I worked at the CR<\/em> as a student\u2014my exam year and dissertation year\u2014were hard ones for me on many fronts, and I felt then, and still feel, that getting to help make this magazine was the best thing about them. Of course, I want to do my job well in that I aim to continue the CR<\/em>‘s legacy of promoting excellent writing that takes worthy risks; there is, however, no CR<\/em> without our student editors, and I hope above all else that I can offer them even a fraction or a shadow of how much I learned and how supported I felt during my time in their shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is an honor to serve the CR<\/em> as managing editor, and I hope to do so for many years to come. Thank you to the rest of the CR<\/em> team\u2014and to Lisa Ampleman, newly at Acre Books!\u2014for trusting me to take on this work. I look forward to making the very best magazine we can, together.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Afsheen Farhadi, a former UC creative writing PhD student, is one of the featured readers. I emailed Farhadi a question about his debut novel, False Prophet (2026, Melville House). Prince Bush: In your debut, the protagonist, Jal, writes a memoir …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":549,"featured_media":32462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[650],"tags":[2277,7104,109,7106,7105,7107],"ppma_author":[7103],"class_list":["post-32460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-afsheen-farhadi","tag-false-prophet","tag-interview","tag-melville-house","tag-the-creeps-meditations-on-horror","tag-university-of-iowa-press"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A One-Question Interview with Afsheen Farhadi - The Cincinnati Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On Thursday, September 10, 2026, The Visiting Writers Series returns for the 2026-27 academic year. 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Today, we look at museums through the POV of Nick Kunze.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Layman’s Guide to Museums<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My story,\u00a0\u201cWhat Does the Horse Mean?,\u201d\u00a0is set in a museum. So, it\u2019s only fitting to use this space to consider museums\u2019 endless, malleable appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My own relationship to museums is not fiction-worthy. I didn\u2019t spend my youth wandering the halls of an anthropology museum where my father happened to be the curator, like the precocious hero of a young adult novel. Hopping genres, I\u2019ve never been involved in an art theft or witnessed a murder in a gallery. If I\u2019m being honest, I\u2019m a middling museum visitor at best\u2014I rarely read the plaques, preferring to experience exhibits by osmosis. But, I do love a museum. It\u2019s a stop in every city I visit, anywhere on the globe. What, I wonder, draws me to them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1925.523-Equestrienne-At-the-Cirque-Fernando-682x429.jpg\" alt=\"Circus scene painted by Toulouse-Lautrec.\" class=\"wp-image-32407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1925.523-Equestrienne-At-the-Cirque-Fernando-682x429.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1925.523-Equestrienne-At-the-Cirque-Fernando-360x227.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1925.523-Equestrienne-At-the-Cirque-Fernando-265x167.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1925.523-Equestrienne-At-the-Cirque-Fernando-520x327.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1925.523-Equestrienne-At-the-Cirque-Fernando-1536x967.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1925.523-Equestrienne-At-the-Cirque-Fernando-2048x1290.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1925.523-Equestrienne-At-the-Cirque-Fernando-1550x976.jpg 1550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, <i>Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando)<\/i>, Art Institute of Chicago.<br> <b>After rushing past haystack after haystack, I\u2019m transfixed. It\u2019s weird. A little menacing. I like it.<\/b><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inspiration is part of the answer. The first inkling of \u201cWhat Does the Horse Mean?\u201d emerged while I was exploring\u2014you guessed it\u2014a museum. This was years ago, but I remember where I was when the idea struck. There was a neon light sculpture, a rug, a television on a pedestal. Another room was taken up entirely by a single piece of conceptual art: a light show combined with nature sounds, flashing yellows and buzzing bees. The exhibits in these rooms were all art that had escaped the confines of a canvas. Inspiration, however, isn\u2019t the only reason I\u2019m drawn to museums. I don\u2019t live my life for the sole purpose of finding ideas. I think what draws me to museum after museum is how much power I hold as a museumgoer. In a movie, I have no control over the plot. At a concert, I do not decide when the bands begin to play, or if they\u2019ll perform my favorite songs. Only in a museum do I have full creative control over how I perceive the art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DT163-360x486.jpg\" alt=\"A spindle-back chair made of wood, very square in aspect.\" class=\"wp-image-32411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DT163-360x486.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DT163-682x921.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DT163-265x358.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DT163-520x703.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DT163-1137x1536.jpg 1137w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DT163-1516x2048.jpg 1516w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DT163-1550x2094.jpg 1550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Spindle-back armchair, 1640-80, Metropolitan Museum of Art. <br><strong>Yup, that’s a chair.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1eb1c1ea-581c-402a-83dc-ecd63e451003_1977-360x546.jpg\" alt=\"An oil painting of the crucifixion of Jesus.\" class=\"wp-image-32416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1eb1c1ea-581c-402a-83dc-ecd63e451003_1977-360x546.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1eb1c1ea-581c-402a-83dc-ecd63e451003_1977-682x1035.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1eb1c1ea-581c-402a-83dc-ecd63e451003_1977-265x402.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1eb1c1ea-581c-402a-83dc-ecd63e451003_1977-520x789.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1eb1c1ea-581c-402a-83dc-ecd63e451003_1977-1012x1536.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1eb1c1ea-581c-402a-83dc-ecd63e451003_1977-1350x2048.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1eb1c1ea-581c-402a-83dc-ecd63e451003_1977-1550x2352.jpg 1550w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1eb1c1ea-581c-402a-83dc-ecd63e451003_1977.jpg 1977w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Simon Bening, The Crucifixion, Getty Museum <br><strong>Not for me. Sorry, JC.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a visitor, I owe the museum no allegiance. I move at my own pace, choose my own adventure. I can stare at one painting for five minutes and then skip the next five entirely. I am not obligated to look at art that does not interest me, to explore room after room of religious iconography, ten thousand Jesuses with matching penitent expressions. I\u2019m a writer. I like narrative, character. For this reason, massive canvases of dark-colored abstraction don\u2019t entice me. A collection of kitchen chairs placed just so doesn\u2019t get me excited. I\u2019ll look while I pass, but I am not compelled to stop.<em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Freedom of exploration also turns museums into a unique social experience. A guideline for a good museum partner: similar pace. My dad explores a museum like he\u2019s checking the curators\u2019 work. He reads every plaque, takes slow deliberate steps with his hands behind his back. I am glad he enjoys himself. By the time I\u2019ve finished an exhibit, however, he\u2019s still in the first room, absorbing historical context, forcing me to flee to the gift shop to wait him out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another smart rule: talking about the art is good, but talking about the art the <em>entire time<\/em> is bad. Unlike my dad, my mom will use the museum as a place to continue our earlier conversations, bringing up whatever it is she wants to talk about. I say, no; save it for outside. Like the gallery we\u2019re in, our conversation should be curated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the right person, a visit to a museum can even be a source of humor. My girlfriend and I have imitated the art in countless museums, daring each other to laugh with our antiquated poses and Victorian faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Joos_van_Craesbeeck_-_A_Man_Surprised-360x472.jpg\" alt=\"Dutch painting of a man with a wide-eyed look of surprise on his face and his mouth in an "O."\" class=\"wp-image-32419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Joos_van_Craesbeeck_-_A_Man_Surprised-360x472.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Joos_van_Craesbeeck_-_A_Man_Surprised-265x347.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Joos_van_Craesbeeck_-_A_Man_Surprised.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Joos van Craesbeeck, A Man Surprised, Agnes Etherington Art Centre. <br><strong>Come on. Make the face. Do it.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enjoying a museum also has a physical requirement. To fully explore a museum, you need to be on your feet for possibly hours at a time, choosing the enrichment of your mind over the soreness of your feet. I am naturally competitive. Do I like a museum because it\u2019s something to overcome? I maximized the twenty-five dollars I paid you\u2014no student discount, thank you very much\u2014walking five miles to soak up every little mystery. Even if I don\u2019t look at everything, I also don\u2019t want to miss that one thing that will set my imagination alight.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s also the catch-all appeal. Museums can house art, the bones of long-dead beasts, the artifacts of long-dead cultures. It can likewise be home to guitars, advertisements, signed baseballs, ball gowns, entire trains, warships, film props, rare flowers, or massive magnets. The only barrier to museumdom, in fact, is passion. At least one person must care enough to amass a collection, find the space to display it, write up the plaques, and man the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NMNH-USNM10865_Diplodocus_screen-360x640.jpg\" alt=\"Skeleton of a Diplodocus halloram in the dinosaur wing of the Smithsonian.\" class=\"wp-image-32421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NMNH-USNM10865_Diplodocus_screen-360x640.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NMNH-USNM10865_Diplodocus_screen-265x471.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NMNH-USNM10865_Diplodocus_screen-520x924.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NMNH-USNM10865_Diplodocus_screen.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Diplodocus hallorum (Gillette, 1991), Smithsonian Natural History Museum. <br><strong>Fun fact: it\u2019s impossible to spend too long in the dinosaur room.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the biggest, most famous museums of the world are magnificent, it\u2019s smaller museums that really fascinate me. They feel like personal statements. They\u2019re works of art themselves, in the most literal sense: someone interpreting the world through the act of creation. There\u2019s a pinball museum in New Jersey. A ventriloquism museum in Kentucky. A UFO museum in Roswell, New Mexico. The Darwin Twine Ball Museum in Minnesota houses a single, massive ball of twine. I\u2019ve had a wonderful time at Oklahoma City\u2019s National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum (formerly the Cowboy Hall of Fame), and taken three trips to the MODO (Museo del Objeto del Objeto) in Mexico City, which inspired a work of flash fiction. In my own Los Angeles, the Museum of Jurassic Technology feels almost insidious: an unclassifiable combination of odd artifacts and fictitious facts, compiled in dark rooms and narrow corridors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/The_ball_of_twine_housed_in_Darwin_MN.jpg\" alt=\"A gigantic ball of twine housed in a pagoda with glass walls.\" class=\"wp-image-32423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/The_ball_of_twine_housed_in_Darwin_MN.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/The_ball_of_twine_housed_in_Darwin_MN-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/The_ball_of_twine_housed_in_Darwin_MN-682x512.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/The_ball_of_twine_housed_in_Darwin_MN-265x199.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/The_ball_of_twine_housed_in_Darwin_MN-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Twine Ball, The Darwin Ball of Twine Museum. <br><strong>Hell yeah.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mind goes further. Is a zoo a museum? The elephants a sculpture garden, the reptile house a dense gallery of frames? I interact with them in the same way I do a museum exhibit. At the San Diego Zoo, the swinging, whooping monkeys can hold my attention for ten minutes, while the dumpy, sleeping tapir is given only a passing glance. How about a temple in Thailand, with plaques explaining deities? Or a music festival as a curation of sounds? Although this last one appeals less\u2014too loud, too crowded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"806\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ducks_Breath_2757824597.jpg\" alt=\"Taxidermied duck head appearing to perform CPR on a wax or plaster cast of a human face.\" class=\"wp-image-32425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ducks_Breath_2757824597.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ducks_Breath_2757824597-360x242.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ducks_Breath_2757824597-682x458.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ducks_Breath_2757824597-265x178.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ducks_Breath_2757824597-520x349.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Duck’s Breath, Museum of Jurassic Technology. Photo by Sascha Pohflepp, CC BY 2.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=64305582. <br><em><strong>Apparently, breathing in a duck\u2019s breath can cure childhood thrush. This place is cursed.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I think all of these musings can be attributed to the fact that a museum, while a collection of ideas and thoughts, is also a physical space. The A\/C is running. There\u2019s coffee for purchase. It\u2019s somewhere to wait out a storm or hide from the heat, a place where you can spend forty minutes or an entire day. Sometimes your mind might wander, or you can give your entire focus to someone else\u2019s thoughts. 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Thanks so much for taking the time to do an interview with me about your now one-year-old, award-winning, debut poetry collection, <em>Hardly Creatures<\/em> (Tin House, 2025)! <em>HC <\/em>architecturally reimagines the book-as-medium\u2019s possibility and pushes the boundaries of it provocatively and generatively via access symbols, image descriptions, places to pause or rest while reading, reminders that the book can be put down, and blank page poems for art that was not able to be finished, among other things. I\u2019ve been thinking about hybrid forms and trans-genre work that, like disabled and trans people, must invent the forms and relationalities to not only survive, but to sur-thrive, which is often collective and improvisational, messy, beautiful, difficult, and contradictory. I see this all at work in <em>HC<\/em>. Can I call <em>HC <\/em>a work of hybrid poetry (\/positive)? What genres or relations do you hope the book has enacted or engendered? What future-genres of the book might there be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rob Macaisa Colgate:<\/strong>  I think so often of poetry as a medium rather than the art itself, as the paint but not the painting, as an approach to language but not language itself. And I think queerness and disability operate similarly. Queerness is much more about the ecstasy of the alternative than the specifics of sexuality. And disability moves far beyond physical and mental debility, resting more firmly in the realm of how society limits our access because of this debility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another way I think about hybridity is how it occurs not just across genres, but across concerns. I published the verse drama <em>My Love is Water <\/em>with Ugly Duckling Presse last year (shoutout, love them), and my verse novel <em>The Vice of Our Jaws <\/em>is coming with Tin House next fall. While these projects are perhaps more conventionally hybrid (though is the hybrid ever conventional?) in that they integrate genres, I also think of <em>Hardly Creatures<\/em> as a hybrid between verse and an art gallery. <em>The Vice of Our Jaws <\/em>could most accurately be described as a hybrid of verse and a junk journal; it is really meant to be a found object, a queercrip artifact rather than a report on marginalization. And even right now, I am working on a new collection that is shaping up to be a hybrid of verse and a psychotic break. Poetry has the capacity to merge so contiguously with its concerns that the topic of the poem becomes essential to its form and structure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course you could make the argument that these remain merely topics, not forms themselves. And I think you might win that argument in prose. But I believe poetry to be so elastic and porous that it can wrap around anything and start to subsume through the surface. So I don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible for me to write anything that isn\u2019t hybrid; whatever the ends, the means will always be poetry, and the two will always coalesce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>RZ: <\/strong>I\u2019ve been thinking about \u00c9douard Glissant\u2019s concept of the right to opacity as a form of liberatory practice in art and writing (and life), specifically as in not translating or \u201cmasking.\u201d I see many instances in <em>HC <\/em>in which \u201clegibility\u201d (in terms of grammar, syntax, or subject) and \u201copacity\u201d (in terms of a writing toward a perceived \u201cnormative\u201d audience or not) are taken up as a theme and tension. For instance, in the poem \u201comfg\u201d the speaker-poet says, \u201ci don\u2019t care about \u2018rendering arresting images\u2019 \u2026 i\u2019m fucking \/ exhausted of convincing you that we are happy to be alive.\u201d What do you think of the idea of the right to opacity as applied to disabled poetics and your work in particular? How were you thinking about this articulation of legibility versus opacity\u2014which is of course a question of audience and capitalism\u2014while writing this book and how has it changed over the course of the book\u2019s life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>RMC:<\/strong> Thank you for introducing me to that phrase! The right to opacity is absolutely one that I maintain. For me, it\u2019s an issue of disability justice. Schizophasia is my natural language; every time I speak cogent English, it is because I have medicated away a natural state in favor of participating in an inaccessible society. If I can\u2019t return to a natural state on the page, then what is the point of writing poems? Writing poems should set you free, or at the very least should make you feel more like yourself. Otherwise I just wouldn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, I think that having the right to opacity means knowing when to exercise it. When I was writing <em>HC<\/em>, I was aware that the book would be educational for many, and that even something as obvious to myself as the social model of disability might require a significant mental jump for unfamiliar readers. There is all sorts of discourse surrounding marginalized folks doing the work of educating others on their marginalization. I\u2019ve seen recent arguments that the phrase \u201cit is not my obligation to educate you\u201d has done more harm than good across social justice movements. One thing I do believe is that poems themselves are under no obligation to explain themselves to every reader, to be written with didactic intention (though I also fear that it is impossible for a poem to fail to be educative, because poems are made of language, and language is the unit of information). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All this to say: I made the active decision in writing <em>HC<\/em> to take up this instructive work on my own terms. I wanted the book to be legible because I wanted folks to be able to understand what might be their first exposure to disability studies. And I took solace in knowing that not every project would have this concession. There is always going to be another book, another poem; I do not have to fit my entire ethos into a single project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>RZ: <\/strong>Finally\u2014and thank you for your generous answers\u2014one year and a month on from publishing <em>HC<\/em>, how has publishing this book changed you? What has changed about disabled poetry\u2014in your own view and\/or outwardly in the world that you have noticed\u2014in the process of this book being out? What will you take with you to the next book and what will you look to create next?<br><br><strong>RMC: <\/strong>God I\u2019m tired. LOL. Of course I\u2019m endlessly grateful for everything that this book has brought me: connections with astonishing writers, opportunities to teach brilliant students, booksellers who greet me by name. But honestly, I write because I like to write. It makes me feel like Rob. For me, writing a book and creating a public product with a press are completely separate activities, and being able to continue doing the former is why I am more than happy to do the latter. Tin House has been nothing but a dream to work with, and I am so lucky to stay with them for my next book. The past year has simply clarified to me that I am a poet before I am an author, and that prioritizing that balance is essential to my day-to-day joy and energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How has the book being out changed disabled poetry? I don\u2019t know! I tend to be reclusive. Disabled poets, if the book changed something for you, let Rose know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for my next book: <em>The Vice of Our Jaws<\/em> was the most fun I\u2019ve ever had writing. I started writing it<em> <\/em>the day after I finished <em>Hardly Creatures. <\/em>I was conscious while writing <em>Hardly Creatures <\/em>that it would be my debut, and a debut collection ought to hit certain notes. That certainly didn\u2019t limit me or force me to write anything I didn\u2019t want to write, but it did shape the experience. With <em>The Vice of Our Jaws<\/em>, I didn\u2019t think for a second about publication, intelligibility, or reception. I think that total release allowed me to better build out the world of the book, which sprawls across forms and graphic designs and interpolates a lot of Filipino history. I feel so utterly privileged to have had the luxury of experiencing a deep connection to my craft throughout the entire process, whether at residencies or while on the train to my day job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that I\u2019ve had my fun, whatever happens on the public side is really none of my business. My editor at Tin House and I are making a lot of thrilling revisions; it is a privilege to have a professional relationship with enough mutual trust to entirely excavate and rebuild a personal art object. It\u2019s a weird book! And it is nothing like <em>Hardly Creatures. <\/em>I\u2019m so excited, and cannot believe it will already be here next fall. 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Goodbye from the Managing Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: <\/strong>Although we\u2019ve announced this elsewhere, a staff update: I\u2019m leaving the role of managing editor at <em>The Cincinnati Review<\/em> and moving over to a full-time position at Acre Books, where I\u2019ve served in a volunteer capacity as poetry series editor for the past eight years. The press\u2019s founder, Nicola Mason, is transitioning into a role of consulting editor, so Sarah Haak (Acre\u2019s managing editor) and I will be co-publishers and attempt to fill her shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Approaching the change, I\u2019ve been struggling to write my last piece for the <em>CR <\/em>site. When I started as managing editor in 2017, I said in a mag announcement, \u201cTo put it quite simply: this is my dream job.\u201d And it has been, even in trying times. But putting it into words is challenging (cognitively and emotionally), so I thought I\u2019d try a hermit-crab essay approach, using a guide to proofreading marks as my shell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Proofreader\u2019s Marks, Or Editing Down a Hard Topic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-thumbnail is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"265\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/delete-and-close-up-1-265x265.png\" alt=\"A line drawn in red that crosses over itself forming a knotlike shape, with parentheses shapes above and below\" class=\"wp-image-31963\" style=\"width:265px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">proofreader’s mark for delete and close up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>By my count, I\u2019ve worked with twenty-six graduate student editors over the past 9.5 years, helping them learn the ropes of editing and cheering them on as they applied for jobs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/simple-delete-e1785951161771-360x233.png\" alt=\"A drawn line that crosses over itself to look like a knot, in red\" class=\"wp-image-31965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/simple-delete-e1785951161771-360x233.png 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/simple-delete-e1785951161771-682x441.png 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/simple-delete-e1785951161771-265x171.png 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/simple-delete-e1785951161771-520x336.png 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/simple-delete-e1785951161771.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">proofreader’s mark for delete\/remove<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That means I\u2019ve gotten to know them, enjoyed their company, and then had to say goodbye, in cycles, repeatedly.<br> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/close-up-e1785951365831-360x303.png\" alt=\"A proofreader's mark with two arcs, one above and one below\" class=\"wp-image-31974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/close-up-e1785951365831-360x303.png 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/close-up-e1785951365831-682x575.png 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/close-up-e1785951365831-265x223.png 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/close-up-e1785951365831-520x438.png 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/close-up-e1785951365831.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">proofreader’s mark to close up a space<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some would apologize when asking for recommendation letters, but I always emphasized that that\u2019s why I\u2019m here. It feels like the pinnacle of my career when someone gets a job they\u2019re excited about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/stet-e1785951919626-360x203.png\" alt=\"Proofreader's mark: the letters "stet" within a circle. All red.\" class=\"wp-image-31982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/stet-e1785951919626-360x203.png 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/stet-e1785951919626-682x385.png 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/stet-e1785951919626-265x150.png 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/stet-e1785951919626-520x294.png 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/stet-e1785951919626.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Stet: ignore the edit here and keep it as it was<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ll still be working with graduate students at Acre, though fewer and in a slightly different capacity for the pace of acquisitions and editing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/add-space-360x360.png\" alt=\"A proofreader's mark in red that looks like a hashtag\" class=\"wp-image-31985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/add-space-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/add-space-682x682.png 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/add-space-265x265.png 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/add-space-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/add-space-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/add-space-560x560.png 560w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/add-space.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">proofreader’s mark for adding a space<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2017, the magazine started publishing the miCRo series, a weekly piece of flash prose or short poetry, at the suggestion of one of the student editors, Gwen E. Kirby. Since then, the series has had pieces chosen for <em>Best Microfiction<\/em>, <em>Best of the Net<\/em>, <em>Best New Poets<\/em>, <em>Best Small Fictions<\/em>, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and the <em>Wigleaf <\/em>Top 50.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/add-hairline-space-360x360.png\" alt=\"A proofreader's mark in red with the letters hr and then a hashtag shape\" class=\"wp-image-31987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/add-hairline-space-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/add-hairline-space-682x682.png 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/add-hairline-space-265x265.png 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/add-hairline-space-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/add-hairline-space-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/add-hairline-space-560x560.png 560w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/add-hairline-space.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Proofreader’s mark for adding a hairline space<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early on, one of the emerging writers we published in miCRo was approached by an agent because of her piece with us. Since then, she\u2019s published a story collection with Melville House\u2014it was named a best book of the year by NPR and <em>Library Journal<\/em>, among other recognitions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/new-paragraph-360x360.png\" alt=\"A proofreader's mark for "new paragraph," a backward P with an extra vertical line\" class=\"wp-image-31989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/new-paragraph-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/new-paragraph-682x682.png 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/new-paragraph-265x265.png 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/new-paragraph-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/new-paragraph-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/new-paragraph-560x560.png 560w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/new-paragraph.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Proofreader’s mark for new paragraph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m also intensely proud that stories from our pages, the first published for that author, were chosen for <em>Best Debut Short Stories <\/em>for three years in a row: Patch Kirschenbaum\u2019s \u201cFor Future Reference: Notes on the 7-10 Split\u201d in 2022, Faire Holliday\u2019s \u201cStanding Still\u201d in 2023, and Alex Boeden\u2019s \u201cAlfhild\u201d in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/transpose-360x360.png\" alt=\"A proofreader's mark: the letters "tr" with a circle around them, all in red\" class=\"wp-image-31997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/transpose-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/transpose-682x682.png 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/transpose-265x265.png 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/transpose-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/transpose-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/transpose-560x560.png 560w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/transpose.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Transpose\/move\/switch the letters or words marked as such in the text<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things changed dramatically for the magazine in the pandemic\u2014as they did for most people. We went from working four or five days a week together in the office (depending on people\u2019s schedules) to working at home. Today, we meet in the office once a week and work remotely the other days. The Microsoft Teams chat has kept us going, especially gifs and side conversations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/move-right-360x360.png\" alt=\"A figure made out of three lines, a sort of square with the right vertical line missing. A proofreader's mark in red.\" class=\"wp-image-31998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/move-right-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/move-right-682x682.png 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/move-right-265x265.png 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/move-right-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/move-right-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/move-right-560x560.png 560w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/move-right.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Move to the right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also changed our approaches to editing, in a way that aligned with industry changes. We were still all copyediting in hard copy before making edits in Word. After a little effort, we figured out how to all have access to files and be able to enter our own suggested edits. Our copyediting sessions moved online instead of being in person and gathered around the paper copy, a change that editors preferred in the end. Same thing for our proofreading sessions, which can take four to six hours: Having me enter final corrections on a shared screen helped editors learn more. Silver linings to a tough time of life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/move-left-360x360.png\" alt=\"A figure made out of three lines: a square with the left vertical line missing. A proofreader's mark in red\" class=\"wp-image-32000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/move-left-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/move-left-682x682.png 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/move-left-265x265.png 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/move-left-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/move-left-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/move-left-560x560.png 560w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/move-left.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Move to the left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A selfish brag: During that tough era, I received a department award for teaching even though I\u2019m not in the classroom. The award announcement said in part: \u201cWorking alongside students as they curate content, manage author relations, copyedit and process submissions, and write for the CR website, Ampleman also creates an equitable and safe environment for students new to the world of publishing, as many of her nominees suggested. \u2026 Over and over again students commented that what they learned under her tutelage was the most valuable experience they had at UC.\u201d That means more than any raise or promotion I\u2019ve received during my tenure at the mag.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/italics-360x360.png\" alt=\"A proofreader's mark in red: the letters ital with a circle around them\" class=\"wp-image-32001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/italics-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/italics-682x682.png 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/italics-265x265.png 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/italics-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/italics-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/italics-560x560.png 560w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/italics.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Italicize this<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to our direct mentorship of graduate-student editors, I enjoyed visiting classes at the University of Cincinnati and across the country (through the Journal of the Month program), discussing copyediting, curation, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/roman-360x360.png\" alt=\"A proofreader's mark in red: the letters rom with a circle around them\" class=\"wp-image-32003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/roman-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/roman-682x682.png 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/roman-265x265.png 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/roman-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/roman-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/roman-560x560.png 560w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/roman.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Make this Roman\/regular text<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I advocated for an additional staff position, and now we have the fabulous Bess Winter as web and social media editor, rounding out the permanent staff of three, including Matt O\u2019Keefe, senior editor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bold-360x360.png\" alt=\"the letters bf with a red circle around them\" class=\"wp-image-32005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bold-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bold-682x682.png 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bold-265x265.png 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bold-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bold-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bold-560x560.png 560w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bold.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Make this bold<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One effort on our site that I\u2019m glad has persisted: The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/category\/writers-day-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Writers\u2019 Day Jobs<\/a> series that features folks who aren\u2019t teaching in higher ed. I love hearing how people\u2019s writing lives do or do not intersect with what they do for a paycheck.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lowercase-360x360.png\" alt=\"The letters lc with a circle around them.\" class=\"wp-image-32006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lowercase-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lowercase-682x682.png 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lowercase-265x265.png 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lowercase-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lowercase-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lowercase-560x560.png 560w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lowercase.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lowercase this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s been discouraging, though, to see other peer magazines shutter due to institutional changes, including <em>The Gettysburg Review<\/em>, <em>Sycamore Review<\/em>, and <em>Tin House<\/em> the mag. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/writing-landscape\/how-to-support-literary-magazines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Support your lit mags, folks<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/capitalize-360x360.png\" alt=\"A proofreader's mark in red: the letters caps with an oval drawn around them\" class=\"wp-image-32007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/capitalize-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/capitalize-682x682.png 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/capitalize-265x265.png 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/capitalize-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/capitalize-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/capitalize-560x560.png 560w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/capitalize.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Capitalize this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am certain that the new managing editor, Lily Davenport, will do an excellent job. She\u2019s one of the best copyeditors I\u2019ve worked with, and she knows <em>The Chicago Manual of Style <\/em>like the back of her proverbial hand. She\u2019s passionate about literary magazines and the field as a whole, and the mag will flourish with her alongside the other permanent staff. (Plus, she’s an excellent baker!)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-comma-360x360.png\" alt=\"A proofreader's mark in red: a comma under an inverted V\" class=\"wp-image-32008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-comma-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-comma-682x682.png 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-comma-265x265.png 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-comma-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-comma-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-comma-560x560.png 560w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-comma.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Add comma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The job search for the new managing editor showed that we have a deep field of talented editors out there, which means a lot for the future. At each stage, it was hard to figure out where to draw the line when we needed to narrow the number of people we were considering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-quote-marks-360x360.png\" alt=\"A proofreader's mark in red: A double quote mark with a widened V under it\" class=\"wp-image-32009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-quote-marks-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-quote-marks-682x682.png 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-quote-marks-265x265.png 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-quote-marks-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-quote-marks-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-quote-marks-560x560.png 560w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-quote-marks.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Add quotation marks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">\u201c. . . Words strain,<br><br>Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,<br><br>Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,<br><br>Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,<br><br>Will not stay still.\u201d<br><br>\u2014T.S. Eliot, \u201cBurnt Norton\u201d<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-period-360x360.png\" alt=\"A proofreader's mark in red: a period with a circle around it\" class=\"wp-image-32010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-period-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-period-682x682.png 682w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-period-265x265.png 265w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-period-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-period-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-period-560x560.png 560w, https:\/\/www.cincinnatireview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/insert-period.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Add a period here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br><br>In the end, I\u2019m not leaving the city, the university, or the field of editing. 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How do you see the relationship between poetry and creative nonfiction in your own life and process? What separates the two for you\u2014if anything does?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For my own writing, I like to think of poetry as good at complicated feelings, and nonfiction as good at complicated situations, though of course both live on a spectrum. Details and logistics immediately send me to nonfiction. Sentences as a unit of writing feel sturdier to me than poetry, and can stand up to more explanation, but also looser, with less pressure to sound instantly immersive or even estranged like poems often do. But since I write about the same or similar issues in both genres, I try not to repeat myself and instead let the genre allow me to explore the topics differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Continuing in the nonfiction vein, I am constantly balancing the pros and cons of writing about people in my real life. On the one hand, writers draw from their lives, good and bad, but on the other, writing about people who can read the work has the potential for real consequences. I so admire how well you call out bad behavior like racism and sexism in your poetry. How do you approach writing about living people? Does it ever affect your relationships, or do you take more of an <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/2014\/05\/16\/anne-lamott-people-pleasing-haters-trolls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Anne Lamott<\/strong><\/a><strong> stance that \u201cYou own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I always try to write first and think about audience later, or else I might get too caught up in worrying about future reactions. In my book I write extensively about my relationship with my mom, and with my husband. Writing about a partner is much easier than writing about my mom, I think. He reads my work and has a much more straightforward response. But with my mom, there are a lot of other things going on, including the dynamics of our relationship that seep into how I think about writing about her. Something that helps is that part of the project of my book is exploring the ethics of writing and representation, so I get to question these issues in the poems themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I\u2019m an admirer of your \u201cArs Poetica\u201d poems in <em>Replica<\/em>\u2014do you think of these as three separate poems with the same title, or as a sequential poem woven through the final section of the book? Or something else entirely? Are there any poetic influences you look to for these pieces?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think of them as three separate poems. One of my influences for these poems and the book as a whole is part 3 of Layli Long Soldier\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kenyonreview.org\/kr-online-issue\/2012-fall\/selections\/layli-long-soldier-763879\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u021ee S\u00e1pa<\/a>,\u201d which is a concrete poem in the shape of a box (four lines, each line forms a side of the box). The line \u201cThis is how to place you in the space in which to see\u201d has been especially important to me and the way I think about self-representation, and how I want to use ars poeticas to show readers how to read me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Replica<\/em> is still brand-new, but what is one question about the book that you wish you were asked more often? Are there any overlooked pages that deserve more love and attention?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t get asked about <em>Replica<\/em> as a title that much, and I\u2019d love to talk about it, if only because the book went through many other (bad) titles to get to this point! \u201cReplica\u201d was originally the title of a different poem in the book, which didn\u2019t feel very representative of the book as a whole, so I didn\u2019t think I could use it. Then after cycling through some other titles, I got the idea to poach the title for a different poem (the current title poem) and give the original poem a different title. I also really love how the title ties in with the cover art by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yqzhu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yuqing Zhu<\/a>! She is a neuroscientist in addition to a visual artist, and I find her surreal self-portraits so evocative of the ideas of repetition, identity, and mirroring that I\u2019m trying to explore in my book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m so grateful I got to chat with you, Arah. 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