by Variant Lit Team | Oct 8, 2026 | Interview, Variety Pack
Variant Literature’s Megan Nichols talked to author Ben Kline about winning a Lambda Literary Award for his poetry collection It Was Never Supposed to Be, published by Variant Literature in 2025 and available for purchase here. Megan Nichols: Congratulations on...
by Variant Lit Team | Sep 15, 2026 | Interview, Variety Pack
Recently on Zoom I spoke with the endlessly energetic David Ryan about his new collection of brilliant and strange short stories, Alligator. Our conversation was wild and surprising as the book itself, and as vast and varied. Among other subjects, we talk...
by Variant Lit Team | May 12, 2026 | Interview, Variety Pack
In Terrestrial, Suzy Eynon renders the Arizona desert as both landscape and signal, a place where loneliness sits just beneath the surface and connection often feels out of reach. Set in the shadow of the Phoenix Lights, the novella follows Daisy, a teenage girl...
by Variant Lit Team | Jan 18, 2026 | Interview, Variety Pack
Sharon Kennedy-Nolle is the author of the chapbook Black Wick: Selected Elegies (Variant Literature, 2021), which was a semifinalist for the 2018 Tupelo Snowbound Chapbook Contest and a 2020 Chapbook Editor’s Pick by Variant Literature Press. Her full-length...
by Variant Lit Team | Sep 28, 2025 | Interview, Variety Pack
James R. Gapinski is the author of the novella Edge of the Known Bus Line, as well as the forthcoming short story collection, The Museum of Future Mistakes, which won the 2024 BOA Short Fiction Prize. They are the managing editor of Conium Press, a boutique literary...
