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October 27, 2026

An Interview with Jay Gao, Author of The Dead One

Jay Gao's The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber, out today from Nightboat, is a staggering book-length poem investigating the possibilities of the arboreal. As Gao reflects here, "Trees are a finite resource, but trees in poetry seem imaginatively inexhaustible." Documents of time, arbiters of dreams, and networks of communal life, this book discovers in them a poetics entirely their own. Gao's endlessly inventive language feels like exploring a thicket of flora: dense, alive, and surprising at every turn. Here, we discuss the world of a long poem, diasporic entanglements with nature, and the many places a…

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September 29, 2026

An Interview with Joon Oluchi Lee, Author of Tricyclist

Joon Oluchi Lee’s Tricyclist, out now from Nightboat, is interested in the instability of things. It’s a novel that turns identities, desires, and relationships inside out, along with the meanings we make from them. Here, I spoke with Lee about porn magazines (he’s decidedly in favor), misrecognition, and the strange, sensual work of turning materiality into feeling.  —Dante Silva Dante Silva: Why Tricyclist? What made that the right title? Joon Oluchi Lee: I’m always interested in the process of becoming whoever you are going to become—I don’t believe that anyone ever completes that process in their life (if they do, they are…

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July 31, 2026

An Interview with Nightboat Editorial Fellow Terrance Wilson Hudson

We recently spoke with Nightboat’s 2025 Editorial Fellow, Terrance Wilson Hudson, about writing like they've got nothing to lose, discovering Lesbian Peoples, and the differences between working in a bookstore versus a publisher. We’re so excited to publish their reissue project, Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary by Monique Wittig & Sande Zeig, foreword by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, in 2027. Lindsey Boldt & Santi Valencia: How did you first get interested in Monique Wittig & Sande Zeig’s Lesbian Peoples?  What got you fired up about pitching a reprint to Nightboat? Terrance Wilson Hudson: I think I discovered it back in 2022.…

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July 14, 2026

Michelle Tea on Red Jordan Arobateau

The following is Michelle Tea’s foreword to Red Jordan Arobateau’s Time Also Will Make It Interesting: Selected Journals, edited by Cameron Awkward-Rich. I was on my way to interview Red Jordan Arobateau for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, my editor having accepted my pitch for a profile of this incredibly prolific, underappreciated writer. Did Red really live in Nob Hill—Snob Hill, as it was often derided? This seemed incorrect, but maybe I was wrong about Nob Hill? In my mind, Red was a type of queer Bukowski, for his lustiness, the way he claimed getting off as a sort of…

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May 19, 2026

An Interview with Antonio Ochoa, Author of Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo

Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo is Antonio Ochoa’s first bilingual collection, a work that moves in spirals of “oscillation between hemispheres,” between poetry and prose,  between Spanish and English, between experience and memory. In this conversation, Ochoa and Dante Silva discuss translation as “transcreation,” Mexico’s colonial and multicultural history, and how the algae species sargassum invokes the interconnected currents of ecology, history, and politics. —Lucia Kan-Sperling Dante Silva: Is this your first translation of your own work? How did working across (and around) languages shape the writing? Antonio Ochoa: Yes, this is the first time that I’ve worked using…

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