Jenny Sadre-Orafai is the author of four chapbooks. Recent poetry has appeared in PANK, RHINO, The Bakery, Sixth Finch, ILK, and iO: A Journal of New American Poetry. Recent prose has appeared in The Rumpus, Delirious Hem, The Los Angeles Review, and South Loop Review. She is co-founding editor of Josephine Quarterly and an Associate Professor of English at Kennesaw State University.
Jenny, you’re on a deserted island but luckily you found your three most favorite books, what are they?
Anne Sexton’s The Complete Poems, Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend, Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex
What phrase/quote would you (or do you!) have tattooed on your body?
MOM.
What contemporary writer excites you the most?
Mary Ruefle
What does independent literature mean to you?
Freedom
What color is the sky?
All the colors.
Check out Avoid Disaster, a new project by Jenny Sadre Orafai.
Recently, Sadre-Orafai was interviewed in Poets & Writers, read the interview here.
