An Interview with Kathleen Rooney Patrick Parks Kathleen Rooney is the author, most recently, of the novels Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey (Penguin, 2020) and Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (St. Martin’s, 2017). Her poetry collection Where Are the Snows, selected by Kazim Ali as the winner of the X. J. Kennedy Prize, is forthcoming from Texas Review Press in September 2022, and her novel From Dust to Stardust—based on the life and work of the silent movie star Colleen Moore—will

Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger Peyton Wahl Grief is often devouring, alienating, and impenetrable. However, not so much in spite of grief but in an embrace of it, Lilly Dancyger is able to discover both herself and her seemingly larger-than-life father in the creation of her memoir Negative Space. Through gripping interviews and reflections, Dancyger uncovers her father’s story that he never had the chance to tell and grapples with how his tragic early death affected her ow

The Committee for Advocacy for Incarcerated People: An Interview with Amanda Hadlock, Brett Hanley, and Anthony Borruso Savannah Trent In the fall of 2021, members of Southeast Review’s masthead met and discussed a new initiative: The Committee for Advocacy for Incarcerated People. It was inspired in part due to previous work by FSU alum Dyan Neary, a former SER Nonfiction Editor, who began holding writing workshops with incarcerated writers in 2019, as well as SER’s long-sta