Thanks again to Lookout staffer Lauran Jones for her contributions to this interview. I enjoy the way they make time feel endless.
So where those things are is where I would want to be. I want to write in a little townhouse in a walkable community. I think that stems from growing up in a family of twelve. I like when you can hear the rumbles of a community. But I imagine my perfect writing space to be in a busy city. It may sound odd, but I don’t really dream of travel there’s no specific country, town, or city I’m dying to go to. If you could spend a year writing and reading anywhere in the world, where would it be? Thoughts and dreams I often feel we’ve been robbed of. Expanding my own ideas of Blackness, womanhood, gender, sexuality, and love. Connecting with myself through these works. It feels very much like a spiritual journey. In my recent reading journey, I’ve really been focusing on Black writers from the past and present. Here are some of my favorite emerging poets: Kara Jackson, Akilah Toney, and Porsha Olayiwola. What emerging authors are you most excited about? Everything is exactly the same, but in an excitingly haunted way. Keeping my old student ID! But seriously, I think the best part is that it’s familiar-and yet is further transforming into this stepping stone and living learning experience for me. What’s the best part about transitioning from UNCW student to staff member? I love how both works tackle grief and womanhood. From Lookout Books, I adore Cameron Dezen Hammon’s This Is My Body: A Memoir of Religious and Romantic Obsession. Yes, of course! A piece from Ecotone I enjoy and think about often is Jennifer Tseng’s “ Most of My Dream Fathers Are Women,” from the Love Issue. It’s healthy for my ego when I amaze people by showing them things they can do on a computer that neither they nor I knew about an hour ago.Īre there Lookout titles, issues of Ecotone, or pieces we’ve published that particularly inspire you? An area of expertise I’m excited to bring to the team is how quickly I pick up new software.
Anna Lena’s class assisted me with further fine-tuning my communication and editorial skills. Seabreeze and Atlantis gave me experience working with contributors and maneuvering the ever-changing needs of publishing. Could you speak to a specific experience or class that helped prepare you for your position? Is there an area of expertise that you most look forward to bringing to the team?Īnna Lena’s editorial process class, as well as my work with both Atlantis and Seabreeze, helped prepare me for this position. You earned your certificate in publishing at UNC Wilmington, the parent institution for Lookout and Ecotone. I love how both organizations are writer focused and are willing to expand what good literature reads like and what good authors look like-things I feel most creative industries are very behind in. It’s a very respectful and exciting work environment. The tight-knit-ness of both Ecotone and Lookout Books. Lookout staffer and recent BFA and publishing-certificate graduate Lauran Jones had the chance to talk with Siobahn about her first few months on the job.Īs you begin your work with Ecotone and Lookout Books, what most excites you? During her time in UNCW’s writing and publishing program, she served as the fiction editor for Seabreeze: A Literary Diaspora, the school’s first Black literary magazine, and as fiction editor for the student magazine Atlantis. Siobahn graduated from UNC Wilmington last year with a BFA in creative writing and a certificate in publishing. If you’re a contributor to the magazine or to the imprint’s forthcoming anthology, Bigger Than Bravery, you have might have heard from Siobahn already! We’re excited to introduce the newest member of the Ecotone-Lookout team, administrative associate Siobahn Daugherty.
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