Putting Your Ear to the Tracks: A Conversation with Leesa Cross-Smith

JW: I’ve heard you say that when you begin to write a flash fiction piece, you have a flicker of an image in your mind. Was it the same way with this story?

LCS: Yes—the image that set the story off for me was a man standing at a window. It was snowing, and he was holding a baby. I could see it so vividly in my mind. Originally the guy was sort of like Tim Riggins from Friday Night Lights. He was a little whiter than the brown baby he was holding, and the baby wasn’t his. So why was he holding this baby in the middle of the night? That’s how I write entire books, from an image like that.

I enjoyed my convo w Jessica Wilbanks over @ Catapult abt “Whiskey & Ribbons” and craft and you can read it here! x

SO WE CAN GLOW over @ Belletrist IG! xx

Over @ Belletrist Books on IG I talked to Karah Preiss abt SO WE CAN GLOW and men and women and writing and books! Thank you v much to Karah and Emma Roberts and Belletrist for promoting and sharing and for all of this in gen and for incl me! CHECK IT OUT!

RUMPUS INTERVIEW W MONET THOMAS!

A pleasure, always! READ IT HERE!

INTERVIEW @ ELECTRIC LITERATURE

Over @ Electric Literature I talked to Latria Graham abt writing Whiskey & Ribbons and Kentucky and and and! 

While reading, I came across the idea of a fugue, a piece of music that intertwines several different voices, some of them repetitious, and then a voice drops out. That’s exactly what I needed to do when I was putting this book together.

W&R ARCs & A CONVERSATION!

WHISKEY & RIBBONS ARCs! They are so beautiful, beautiful! (Photos: Hub City Press) AND! I talked to Maddie Anthes @ The Minotaur's Spotlight abt my books and writing and lots of things! xo

@ Real Pants & Something Bright & Sweet

I talked to Bud Smith abt jobs/life/work over @ Real Pants!

My story OUT OF THE STRONG, SOMETHING SWEET is #1 on this Paper Darts list of 10 STORIES THAT BRIGHTENED THE DARKNESS OF 2016. Thank you Paper Darts!