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Urvi Kumbhat

Urvi Kumbhat is currently an MFA candidate at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program. Her work appears in The Margins, Literary Hub, Protean Magazine, and other publications. She grew up in Calcutta. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @curvi_k

Author photo of Katie Kitamura with the cover of her new book Intimacies in the background, laid over a background image that features a banner which reads "Zell Visiting Writers Series Interviews" as well as the University of Michigan, LSA, and Helen Zell Writers Program logos.

An Interview with Katie Kitamura

Katie Kitamura mines the painful tension between intimacy and performance, and their beguiling slippages into each other. Kitamura’s prose—taut, yet full of surprise—is keenly attentive to the intricacies of power and language across circumstances as varied as the turbulent decolonization of an unnamed country, the agonizing days before a professional fight in Mexico, and the […]

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Katie Kitamura mines the painful tension between intimacy and performance, and their beguiling slippages into each other. Kitamura’s prose—taut, yet full of surprise—is keenly attentive to the intricacies of power and language across circumstances as varied as the turbulent decolonization of an unnamed country, the agonizing days before a professional fight in Mexico, and the

There’s Something Beautifully Human About That: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado

I’ve read Her Body and Other Parties thrice now, assigned it to my students, recommended it to friends and cousins and strangers on the internet. Carmen Maria Machado’s haunting, playful writing burrows inside you in that way—months later a Machado image will surface seemingly out of nowhere, as stark and clear as the day I read it.

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I’ve read Her Body and Other Parties thrice now, assigned it to my students, recommended it to friends and cousins and strangers on the internet. Carmen Maria Machado’s haunting, playful writing burrows inside you in that way—months later a Machado image will surface seemingly out of nowhere, as stark and clear as the day I read it.

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