Editor Kathy Goodkin sat down with Brian Lampkin, co-owner of Scuppernong Books, to ask for his thoughts on how a bookstore can function as inclusive space. Scuppernong Books is a thriving independent bookstore and community hub in Greensboro, NC. Kathy Goodkin: Thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me. I want to start with a question about the role of a bookstore in this cultural and political landscape— how do you think a bookstore functions as safe or inclusiv

Kate Partridge: A Woman Alone was selected as the winner of the Gazing Grain Press Prose Chapbook Contest this summer by judge Lily Hoang. Can you tell us a bit about how this collection of short pieces took this form as a chapbook manuscript? Is this a component of a longer work? Nora Boydston: These stories began as completely unrelated pieces and were written over a period of a few years while I was living in New York City. After I finished the MFA program at The New Schoo

Searching for Identity in the Faceless World: Katie Fuller and Paradigms of Power in Valve Doublecross Press, 2016, $10 Katie Fuller’s debut chapbook Valve is a vivid, unsettling examination of feminist identity, power dynamics, and autonomy in an internet-tinted world. Within this beautifully crafted, hand-stitched collection are 13 powerful pieces designed to make the reader re-evaluate self-identity, using the lens of American pop culture. Reminiscent of Alice Notley’s pi