Interviews with Authors Featured in Pufferfish

Authors, fans, family, and friends of authors: ​

Interviews

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These next few weeks The Red Beard Press Blog will be featuring the artists who will be published in Pufferfish. We will be showing some excerpts from their work and conducting interviews with those who are interested. Stay tuned to hear more from the Artists!!! Until then, continue to tune in to the important and moving words from our previous authors such as Carlina Duan who, from Malaysia reminds me daily to refresh how I think about and take up space. As well as how I perceive and consume the things as close/distant as language.

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"shondrea and i talked about how language is your power. some days, admittedly, i zone out. in my town, bahasa malayu gushes in fast rivers out the mouths of every neighbor, 7-11 cashier, fruit stall owner, teacher, friend. around me, language lives -- takes a breath, picks its nose. and when i fall out of the language train and do not understand, i feel like i get squeezed to tight quarters, constricted and lonely and sad. but i have to believe that i'm being made better for it: stronger, sturdier, questioning so much about my own history of being raised in a bilingual world, while putting in the work/wait to learn this new language." -Excerpt from the blog of former Red Beard Supervisor and Co-author of Electric Bite Woman, Carlina Duan (see more​)