Submission Sunday 6.25.23: Editor Interview with Anita Gill

Nonfiction Editor of Hypertext Magazine & Review

Discussed: volunteer readers; nonfiction slush pile; scrappy aesthetic; workshop critiques vs. lit mag editing; global vs. local scale; the editing process as a journey of discovery; art that resonates; a storyteller who knows where to point the lens; an irredeemable number of slaughtered jellyfishes; playing with form; the influence of accolades; avoiding hastiness and considering heaviness; rejections; shame and faith; whether a person can belong when the country has expelled her people

For today’s paid post, I’m pleased to share our third editor interview with Anita Gill, the nonfiction editor of Hypertext Magazine & Review. Anita is a Fulbright Scholar whose work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Kweli, Prairie Schooner, Coachella Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her writing has been listed as Notable in Best American Essays and has won The Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction. She holds an MA in Literature from American University and an MFA in Writing from Pacific University. She is currently working on a novel. Find her online at www.anitagill.ink.

⫸ Check out earlier interviews with editors Yennie Cheung of The Coachella Review and Lauren Westerfield of Split/Lip Press and Blood Orange Review.⫷