Ali Riegel (@ali_riegel) is a third year MFA candidate in Fiction at Texas State University. She comes to Texas from Asheville, NC, which you will learn if you talk to her for more than 30 seconds (she misses the mountains). In addition to wrangling commas, she enjoys wrangling the squash in her garden, drinking whiskey, and driving with no particular direction in mind.
Content by Ali Riegel
Reviews,
“The Pull of the Great Wrong World”: On Lidia Yuknavitch’s “Verge”
In Verge’s stories, Yuknavitch marshals her considerable talents and well-documented experiences—as a survivor of abuse, a recovering addict, and a self-proclaimed “misfit” (her pride in this appellation forming the basis of a famous TED talk and book, The Misfit’s Manifesto)—in service of illuminating the lives of women on the margins.
Interviews,
Manipulating and Celebrating Language: A Microinterview with John Sibley Williams
“I suppose a poem being “ready” is a matter of instinct. One could always revise and revise until the heart of the poem stops beating, until the themes get muddied. I stop revising and begin submitting when a poem makes me smile, when something inside me leaps and kicks.”