March 8, 2019
Stay tuned for the drop date for COYOTE ON HOLY MOUNTAIN, the newest section from The Slaughter Parties, my current book in progress. This section is a featured piece in the Rumpus. It’s also in the anthology Strange Attractors on UMass Press. This text with photographs has a vagina dentata, and vengeance. Don’t say you don’t want it. It gives dish. With teeth where you want them most.
I’ve been in the sweet arms of the Rumpus a few times before….
In THESE PLACES SURROUND US, an interview by Sarah Rauch…who writes “Wikswo aims to explore the experience of mixed-race folx, queer sexuality and erotics, and gender dis/enfranchisement; the characters are haunting, and the prose provocative. Wikswo, who grew up queer in the South, spent ten years on an NEA fellowship visiting sites in Virginia where hate crimes have taken place, taking photographs and re-examining their histories. Her methodology—which includes the use of segregation-era cameras, and no digital manipulation—allows for uncanny images that capture the complex and contradictory nature of history. Placed alongside her revelatory text, Wikswo’s photographs help create an aesthetic that is fluid, gothic, and electrifying.
Once again they slid me in when Edie Meidav interviews writer-activist Quintan Ana Wikswo for Conjunctions on her novel of text and image, The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far (Coffee House), and her unusual biography. The conversation ranges from Wikswo’s childhood spent mostly alone and exquisitely engaged in nature, through epilepsy, and the power of writing the transgressive. “Suffering can be an event that breaks apart the codes… what I’m inching toward is the value of an epoch in our lives when we aren’t normalized,” says Wikswo.
Once more here: THE SPOOKY SENSES OF QUINTAN ANA WIKSWO BY VICTOR LUO
When we are in love, when we are in trauma, when we are fighting for survival or captivated by a hypnotic sunrise, our brains create a visual dreamscape—surreal, shape-shifting, abstracted—that stays with us as long as we live.
Maxine Chernoff interviews Quintan Ana Wikswo about the processes of connecting the senses, emotions and uncertainty in her new collection of short stories, The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far from Coffee House Press.
(The Rumpus is an online literary magazine featuring interviews, book reviews, essays, comics, and critiques of creative culture as well as original fiction and poetry. The Rumpus did an interview with me here, and a review of one of my books here.