Sarah Kalsbeek

Sarah is an MFA student and fiction writer. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Works by this contributor:

Speaking Freely

I have a theory that Russians were linguistically prepared for communism.
Born in the Workshop: The MFA and the Short-Story Cycle

Short-story cycles are often marginalized because they are seen as apprentice works.
At Sea: Confessions on Travel and Travel Writing

Seeing as I’ve never enjoyed reading travel essays, I am bewildered and conflicted now that I’ve ended up writing one.
Journaling NaNoWriMo

Why did I sign up for NaNoWriMo? I'm actually cheating a little bit.

Brooklyn Copeland: Interview

I started writing poetry as a freshman in high school. I would buy blank notebooks as souvenirs because I found the idea of a bunch of blank pages really appealing.
Linda McCarriston: Interview

According to Linda McCarriston, poetry exists for reasons beyond displays of linguistic or lyrical talent.
Bonnie Nadzam: Interview

I expected to feel a certain level of discomfort when I began to read Lamb...
Adam Levin: Interview

Last year, Levin published his ambitious 1,030-page debut novel The Instructions, which spans four days in the life of a brilliant ten-year-old protagonist, Gurion Maccabee, who may or may not be the Messiah.

Fall Line by Joe Samuel Starnes

With Fall Line, Joe Samuel Starnes has written a novel that accrues force the way a swollen river becomes a torrent.
not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them by Jenny Boully

Composed of various excursions into Peter Pan, it extends J. M. Barrie’s characters and comments on the whole enterprise, expanding the story...
Hallucination by William Fuller

Imposed order diminishes the rich, primitive, chaotic experience of being alive.
Alfred Kazin's Journals

Once he has his subject in his grasp, he is able to pick at marble until it becomes art.