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PIF Magazine

“My upbringing was blue-collar, an aftermath of all four grandparents having immigrated from Poland. Life back then for us was about securing work and meals and having a roof over your head.”

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PSYCHOLOGY TODAY Creativity Blog

“I mean everyone knows how it feels to lose at love, to aspire to live excellently, to crave dignity. People are far more similar than they're different. We have more in common than publishers, demographers, and pundits give us credit for.”

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DOWN & OUT MAGAZINE

“Be as down & out as you need in order to write the best stories you can. Don’t be so down or out that you’re stuck. You need to sleep & wake up fresh & spend quiet time at the word box. You need to be able to come up for air.”

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PRAIRIE LIGHTS Bookstore Reading and Q & A

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FICTIONAUT Interview by Meg Pokrass

“I don’t know how stories and poems happen. To say they find me sounds more woo-woo than I’m comfortable with but for the most part accurate. I’d also say they don’t find you unless you’re looking for them. It’s like bird-watching, I suspect. I mean there’s this guy who walks around the lake here, a birdwatcher, and he has the hat and the binoculars on the leather strap around the neck and the hiking boots and the whole khaki get-up and even the beard, and you just know he sees a lot more birds than I when I walk in jeans and a T-shirt to get the mail. Then again while he’s seeing birds, I might see a poem.”

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer's interview in THE DAILY NEBRASKAN

“Novels strike me as indeed like albums. Both take a while to create and edit and produce and both need more than one person to get them out into the world. Both do tend to result in some overall theme or themes coming from their essence, as well as from how they're promoted.”

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VOX POETICA

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