In this episode Marguerite Sheffer talks about Iowa Short Fiction Prize winning collection The Man in the Banana Trees and covers:
the content of Marguerite's wide ranging speculative fiction stories that dive deeply into the practice of making art and some of our most critical justice issues in our culture
how design thinking helped Marguerite get to a place of wildness and fierce play and pleasure with these stories
what it was like to win the 2024 Iowa Short Fiction Prize and how it has changed her professional life
how writing groups and community played a role in completing this collection
what experimentation and sense of creative destruction can lead to in a creative practice
