Pumpernickel Pod

Episode 7: Interview with Aimee Seu

This week we sit down to talk with Aimee Seu about her debut poetry collection Velvet Hounds, as well as flipping the script on who gets to speak in a love poem, and the dismantling of the body. 

Episode 6: Interview with Dayana Stetco

In this episode, Dr. Dayana Stetco discusses her work in the theater and her collection of plays, The Loneliness Pill, as well as giving a surprisingly inspiring talk at the end, rather than engaging in Couri's desire to trash talk bureaucracy. 

Episode 05: Interview with Matthew Mahaney

Matthew Mahaney, author of Plural Spaces, Your Attraction to Sharp Machines, The Storm that Bears your Name, and Word Problems, discusses the thematic elements of his work, and the influences that formed them. Also how pianos be creepy af sometimes.

Katherine Gaffney, author of Once Read as Ruin

We sit down with Katherine Gaffney, author of the poetry chapbook Once Read as Ruin from Finishing Line Press and talk about wildness versus domestication, the fantasy of romantic intimacy versus the reality of the work that comes with love, horse girls and myth, and Longhorn Steakhouse! 

Julie Hoverson of 19 Nocturne Boulevard

This week we sit down with Julie Hoverson, writer, audio editor and sometimes voice actor over at 19 Nocturne Boulevard to talk about challenging oneself with different genres, building and maintaining a fanbase as a young creator, and working on an audio drama. 

Michelle Ross, author of Shapeshifting

Couri Johnson sits down with Michelle Ross, author of of three story collections: There’s So Much They Haven’t Told You (Moon City Press 2017), winner of the 2016 Moon City Press Short Fiction Award and Finalist for the 2017 Foreward INDIES Book of the Year Award for Short Stories, Shapeshifting, winner of the 2020 Stillhouse Press Short Story Award (November 2021), and They Kept Running, winner of the 2021 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction (April 2022).
They discuss Ross's book Shapeshifting, as well as motherhood, dark humor, and the ways in which the world can be terrifying and dystopian. 

Kym Cunningham, author of New Mythologies and Difficulty Swallowing

Couri Johnson sits down with terrific writer and personal friend Kym Cunningham to talk about what reality actually is, systematic oppression, academia, genre and of course, Kym's forthcoming poetry collection New Mythologies from Dream Pop Press, and her book of essays Difficulty Swallowing from Atmosphere Press.