Puloma Ghosh [Host: Kaycie Hall]

On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Kaycie Hall interviews Puloma Ghosh.

Kaycie Hall is the lead editor of our online journal Autofocus. She's also a writer and literary translator, whose work has appeared in Peach Mag, Neutral Spaces, Triangle House Review, and other journals.

Puloma Ghosh is the author of the debut short story collection Mouth (Astra House, 2024). Her work has appeared previously in One Story, CRAFT Literary, Cutleaf, and other publications.

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Full conversation topics include:

-- starting a new job after a layoff

-- balancing writing and illustration

-- elementary school notebooks

-- the short story collection MOUTH

-- putting together a collection after an MFA

-- being generous to a past self

-- Puloma's story "The Fig Tree"

-- story changes through drafts

-- elements of horror and supernatural

-- Puloma's stories "Anomaly" and "Natalia"

-- ordering the stories

-- working on novels

-- green M&M fanfic

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Podcast theme music by Mike Nagel, author of Duplex and Culdesac. Here's his music project: Yeah Yeah Cool Cool.

The Lives of Writers is edited and produced by Michael Wheaton.