Welcome to season two of Cabana Chats! We are thrilled to bring you a conversation with writer, editor, and literary organization professional Halimah Marcus in this first episode of the season.
In this episode, Halimah Marcus, Executive Director of Electric Literature, talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about city life and country life, leaning on your community for support with big new projects, and the opportunities that working together online has created for building an even greater community. Halimah discusses the relationship between her editing and writing, the way she has structured her time during the pandemic, and the variety of skills involved in bringing together the excellent anthology she edited, called Horse Girls.
Halimah Marcus is the Executive Director of Electric Literature, an innovative digital publisher based in Brooklyn, and the editor of its weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading. She is also the editor of Horse Girls (Harper Perennial, 2021), an anthology that reclaims and recasts the horse girl stereotype, which was a New York Times “New and Noteworthy” pick. Her short stories have appeared in Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, One Story, BOMB, The Literary Review, and The Southampton Review. Halimah has an MFA from Brooklyn College, and lives in the Catskill region of New York.
Find out more about Halimah Marcus here: https://www.halimahmarcus.com
Get your copy of Horse Girls here: https://bookshop.org/books/horse-girls-recovering-aspiring-and-devoted-riders-redefine-the-iconic-bond/9780063009257
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Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro.
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