Shannon Ivey, of the #whatshesaidproject, interviews 2023 NEA Creative Writing Fellow Evelyn Berry. They talk craft, voice, courage, and career.
More on Evelyn:
Evelyn Berry (she/her) is the trans, southern author of the forthcoming poetry collection GRIEF SLUT (Sundress Publications, 2024) and the poetry chapbook BUGGERY (Bateau Press, 2020), winner of the 2020 BOOM Chapbook Prize. She has been the recipient of a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 2022 Dr. Linda Veldheer Memorial Prize, 2019 Broad River Prize for Prose, and 2018 Emrys Poetry Prize, among other honors. Her recent work has appeared in GASHER, Beloit Poetry Journal, Raleigh Review, Gigantic Sequins, Anti-Heroin Chic, petrichor, beestung, Taco Bell Quarterly, Underblong, and elsewhere.
Find her here: www.evelynberrywriter.com