Theodora Goss and the Modern Monster Interview Part 2

Sarah Bernhardt

"“The mysterious image of the artist as a sphinx seems to be a metaphor for her ability to transform herself, both on stage and off."

Hello Writers,

Here's part 2 of my interview with Theodora. This time, we'll be discussing...

• The enigmatic Sarah Bernhardt
  
• Writers craft and poetics in story telling
  
• And how to make room for the fantastic in the real world.
  

The finale episode, part 3, will be published on Monday.

Enjoy! 

 Theodora Goss was born in Hungary and spent her childhood in various European countries before her family moved to the United States. Although she grew up on the classics of English literature, her writing has been influenced by an Eastern European literary tradition in which the boundaries between realism and the fantastic are often ambiguous. Her publications include the short story collection In the Forest of Forgetting (2006); Interfictions (2007), a short story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman; Voices from Fairyland (2008), a poetry anthology with critical essays and a selection of her own poems; The Thorn and the Blossom (2012), a novella in a two-sided accordion format; and the poetry collection Songs for Ophelia (2014).  She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, Seiun, and Mythopoeic Awards, as well as on the Tiptree Award Honor List.  Her short story “Singing of Mount Abora” won the World Fantasy Award. You can follow her on Twitter  @theodoragoss

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Rob Cameron is an ENL teacher and dragon boat racer in Brooklyn. Besides producing and editing the Kaleidocast, and acting as lead organizer for the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers, he is a sometimes curator for the New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series, the Surreal Symphony of Zak Zyz, and a pie addict with neither regrets nor inclinations towards rehab.  Follow him @cprwords  & Rob-Cameron.com

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