Inside the Issue, is a new interview series I host with writers whose stories are published in each issue of Southern Indiana Review (SIR). SIR is a literary journal housed in the English Department in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Southern Indiana and publishes bi-annually, in the fall and spring of each year. For more information, or to purchase issues, please click the link above.
The music playing during the opening and credits is from Jacob Sunderlin’s “Ojos Primitivos.” To find this song and the rest of Jacob’s amazing music, go to his Bandcamp page:
https://jacobsunderlin.bandcamp.com/. To find out more about Jacob’s music and his poetry, check out https://www.jacobsunderlin.com/.
Many thanks to Ron Mitchell, SIR Editor-in-Chief, the English Department and College of Liberal Arts at the University of Southern Indiana, and Gage Lynn for assistance with video layout and design.
The music playing during the opening and credits is from Jacob Sunderlin’s “Ojos Primitivos.” To find this song and the rest of Jacob’s amazing music, go to his Bandcamp page:
https://jacobsunderlin.bandcamp.com/. To find out more about Jacob’s music and his poetry, check out https://www.jacobsunderlin.com/.
Many thanks to Ron Mitchell, SIR Editor-in-Chief, the English Department and College of Liberal Arts at the University of Southern Indiana, and Gage Lynn for assistance with video layout and design.
Fall 2023 Issue
Andrew Furman is a professor of English at Florida Atlantic University and teaches in its MFA program in creative writing. His fiction and creative nonfiction frequently engage with the Florida outdoors, but he has also written about Maine, Jewish identity, basketball, lighthouses, swimming, and cast-iron cookware. His essays and stories have appeared in such publications as Prairie Schooner, Oxford American, The Southern Review, Santa Monica Review, Ecotone, Willow Springs, Poets & Writers, Terrain.org, Flyway, Potomac Review, and The Florida Review. He is the author, most recently, of the novels Jewfish (Little Curlew Press, 2020) and Goldens Are Here (Green Writers Press, 2018), and the memoir Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida (University Press of Florida, 2014), which was named a finalist for the ASLE Environmental Book Award. His novel, The World That We Are, set in Maine like his SIR story, "The Body Knows," will be released by Regal House Publishing in 2025. He lives in south Florida with his family. https://www.andrewfurmanwriter.com
Hannah Thurman is a Brooklyn-based writer originally from Raleigh, North Carolina. The winner of the Florida Review's 2023 Editor's Prize for Fiction, her short stories have been published or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Meridian, and others. She has been chosen for conferences/residencies at Yaddo, Bread Loaf, Vermont Studio Center, and VCCA. https://www.hannahpenrosethurman.com
Mat Goldberg's short stories have appeared in The Atlantic, American Short Fiction, and Boulevard, among others. He's received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council and a Special Mention for a Pushcart Prize. He has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arkansas and a degree in engineering from Duke University. His recently completed novel, Roan, is a literary noir set in rural Missouri.
Brigitte Hoarau lives and writes in the Blue Ridge Mountains and holds an MFA from Georgia State University. She serves as an assistant professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College, where she is developing an undergraduate creative writing program. Her fiction has appeared in Fiction Southeast and elsewhere.