Situations of Great Extremity: An Interview with Abby Geni
by Olivia Postelli
“The Farallon Islands are an extreme environment. I think that in that kind of environment, we are all stripped down to our essentials.”
Olivia Postelli is a graduate of the University of Michigan where she studied English and creative writing. She is an assistant editor at Fiction Writers Review and at VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. She lives in Chicago.
“The Farallon Islands are an extreme environment. I think that in that kind of environment, we are all stripped down to our essentials.”
On her most recent collection, Almost Famous Women: “I was fascinated by the orbit of fame, the way it influences a power dynamic, or the way we are so quick to be reverent of greatness.”
I love Megan Mayhew Bergman’s story “The Right Company” from her collection Birds of a Lesser Paradise.
Tallies, counts, and totals–FWR’s 2013 report on gender distribution in publishing.
