Category / Interview / Midwest Review 4 (2016)

What’s your connection to the Midwest? I was twelve years old when my family, sponsored by a Lutheran church, arrived in Indianapolis in 1950 after five years in a DP (displaced persons)…

What’s your connection to the Midwest? I moved to Madison for my MFA in 2003, then was in San Francisco for four years where I met my wife. When my lectureship was…

What’s your connection to the Midwest? I’m connected to the Midwest by every connection point on me. I was born here, raised here, went to school here (in Chicago), and live here…

What’s your connection to the Midwest? Born and raised and now living in the beautiful Driftless Area in western Wisconsin. I’ve lived in the Arizona north, the East coast of Wisconsin and…