interview by Danielle Jones-Pruett           We agree to meet at the aptly named Drink.  My Google map directions have become a clump of pulp in my fist, the ink washed off by the rain between South Station and the giant Hood milk bottle outside the Children’s Museum. Of course I’m a little late for our interview. I’m [...]

Cary Holladay, whose story “Fireworks” appears in the current issue of Breakwater Review, has published five books of fiction. She won an O. Henry Award for her story “Merry-Go-Sorry” and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis. Calvin Hennick, a Breakwater Review managing editor, caught up with Holladay in April at the [...]

Robyn Bradley             When Mrs. Sewell tells us the boys can pick their partners, I know it’s a bad idea.          While the Dreamer Me has done nothing but fantasize about kissing Dan C. ever since he sat behind me in my seventh-grade English class last year, the Realistic Me can’t help but recall a [...]

    interview by Molly McGuire Aracelis Girmay is the author of the children’s art book Changing, Changing and the poetry collection Teeth. She was recently the Grace Paley Visiting Writer at UMass Boston, where MFA poetry student Molly McGuire tracked her down. Girmay received an MFA in creative writing from New York University, and she [...]