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Vikram Chandra is a writer, startup co-founder, and professor at UC Berkeley. He can be found on his website and as @typingvanara on Twitter. Could you tell me a little about your background? That’s a big question! Well, I was born in Delhi. For my first five grades I went to Catholic schools. It was…

Luis Mendo draws from a tiny studio in Tokyo and is the creative director at Almost Perfect. He can be found at his website, at his alter ego’s website, on Instagram and Twitter, and through his newsletter. Hi, Luis. You are a Spanish art director and illustrator working in Tokyo. Can you tell me a…

Victoria Goddard is a writer of literary fantasy. She is a keen gardener, an inveterate book collector, and has a PhD in Medieval Studies (focusing on Dante and Boethius) from the University of Toronto. She currently lives in a cozy farmhouse in the Canadian Maritimes with three dogs, three cats, various poultry, and a wildly…

Fiona, you’re an art historian and curator specialising in Japanese art at the Worcester Art Museum in Boston. How did you get there? I started my education at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. I initially started at as a studio art major, but I was really interested in sort of the interplay between…

Kat Howard is a writer of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Her novella, The End of the Sentence, co-written with Maria Dahvana Headley, was one of NPR’s best books of 2014, and her debut novel, Roses and Rot was a finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel. An Unkindness of Magicians was named a…

Lisa Tang Liu is a photographer and writer. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions, and published in various art magazines. She lives in Massachussets, where she homeschools her two children with her husband, the writer Ken Liu. Her work can be found online at her Instagram accounts, Expert in Nothing, Pigmentia…

Nathan Ashman is a lecturer in Crime Writing at the University of East Anglia, specialising in crime fiction, American fiction, and eco-criticism, and is currently writing the  Routledge Handbook to Crime Fiction and Ecology. This is his conversation with Kat Latham, Tamsin Mackay, Rebecca Barrow, and Asun Álvarez. AA: You’re obviously a lover of literature, but could…

Julia Crouch is the author of several internationally published crime novels. Reckoning that the term ‘psychological thriller’ didn’t do her work justice, she coined the phrase ‘domestic noir’, now in general usage, which is an amazing achievement in itself – to coin something so popular and well-known. A fine example of career adaptation and survival…