A Conversation with Natalia Perkins, ‘19
Interviewed by Cressida Roe ‘21 What started you on writing? When I was a little kid in elementary school, we would write stories and that was my favorite thing to do for class. One of the first stories I ever wrote was about our town getting captured in a snow globe by a witch. My story writing never really evolved from that, and I prefer writing poetry now. What are your favorite styles?
A Conversation with Ewan Hill '18
Interviewed by Julia Falkner ‘19 Could you trace a brief history of your relationship to poetry? I’ve always written, that was just something that I had an impulse to do. But my first year of college, on a whim, I signed up for a slam in Pittsfield. I hopped in the college van and went to this museum where the slam was… Franny Choi was featuring that night, I had no idea who she was, but I had memorized my poem and I went and performed.
A Conversation with Cressida Roe '21
Interviewed by Cassie Follman ‘20 What inspired you to start writing…Why did you start writing? I was a kind of lonely, only-child–I know it sounds cliché, but my best friends were books. I started reading when I was really young, and I just always loved stories. My favorite book was Little Women. I was so inspired by Jo March–I was like, when I go grow up, I am going to be Jo March.
A Conversation with Janelle Tan '18
Interviewed by Julia Falkner ‘19 When did you start writing? I’ve been writing my whole life, I don’t really think I ever started writing. My life has been about trying to become a working writer. Since I was seven or eight, when I realized that “writer” was something you could do for a profession, every single day in my life has been with the single-minded goal of trying to be a working writer.
A Conversation with Isabel Beeman '20
Interviewed by Mo Cooper ‘21 Talk about the process of making one of your pieces from beginning to end. In relation to video, which is kind of what I’m focused on, at least right now, I would say that my process is very intuitive. I usually have, somewhat, [of an idea] in my head and a mood, but I don’t necessarily write a script. It’s definitely a lot of improvisation.
A Conversation with Traci Williams, AC '18J
Interviewed by Cressida Roe ‘21 What inspired you to start writing in the very beginning? It’s my voice. It’s the way I started to speak. I grew up in a household where children were seen and not heard. I would write down the things I wanted to say, and so I wouldn’t get caught, I wrote them as “stories.” I’m right-handed, but I would write with my left hand, so my handwriting wouldn’t be recognized.