Linda K Sienkiewicz

Writing life, line by line

What, Why, How: Mitzi Szereto

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What: I create books that are all across the literary spectrum. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s being pigeonholed as a writer, so I like to mix it up and get readers wondering what I’ll come up with next. My last book Florida Gothic was a horror novel. My new book is Ladies of Gothic Horror (A Collection of Classic Stories), a tribute to the women who helped pave the way for today’s female … [Read more...]

What, Why, How: Mary Mackey

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What: I write poetry, novels, and screenplays, but I never intentionally set out to become a writer. Instead, I came into the world as a poet and storyteller, telling stories and making up rhymed poems before I could read. If this were 7,000 years ago, and we were all sitting around a campfire, I would probably be retelling our myths, lying about my heroic encounters with fantastic beasts, … [Read more...]

What, Why, How: Thaddeus Rutkowski

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What: I write short fiction: short stories and flash fiction. The cut-off between flash fiction and short stories, it seems, is one thousand words, according to literary journals, and my pieces are usually on the thousand-word border. The main thing is, I want to tell stories: about people and what they do, or about myself and what I do, and I want to comment on those stories in obvious or less … [Read more...]

What, Why, How: Lucy Wang

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What: I always wanted to write, but we were poor immigrants, and my parents made it clear, early and often, that our main goal here was to strike it rich. “We didn’t move to America for you to become a starving artist.” So I began my career trading mortgage-backed securities on Wall Street, and served as a deputy chief of staff during NYC Mayor Dinkins’ administration.  When Mayor Dinkins lost to … [Read more...]

What, Why, How: Kathleen McGookey

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What:  I’m a writer, and I write poems.  I have always written, ever since I was a little girl and filled notebooks with possible titles for stories that I never wrote.  I have written newspaper articles, essays and short stories, but now I only write poems. Why:  I am always inspired by whatever I’m reading, whether it’s poetry, fiction, memoir, magazines, or the newspaper.  I feel like all of … [Read more...]