Two Korean-American writers talk identity deprivation, East Coast Asian problems, and self-acceptance.

Moana screenwriter Aaron Kandell talks to Zoë Eisenberg about her novel Significant Others, the unspoken truth behind female relationships, and her golden rule of creativity.

An interview with graphic novelist extraordinaire R. Kikuo Johnson

Toni Ann Johnson on rejecting essentialism and literary limits.

“I would say one shouldn’t think of writing as a career. ‘Career’ is something you do later in life. Writing is something that you do now, that you do because it is how you live your life, because you are someone who writes. If it’s not that for you, well, I would counsel you to think about what is.”

“Become a truth talker.”

“You stay giving away Okinawan sanshin secrets or something?”

“My intended audience is myself, my lover, my younger self, any and all Asian-American young women, and any poetry lovers and true romantics who like to revel in the music and magic of words.”