Aaron Burch’s debut collection,Backswing, is due from Queen’s Ferry Press in 2014. Burch is also the founder and editor of Hobart: Another Literary Journal, and an editor with Elizabeth Ellen of Short Flight/Long Drive Books. His novella How to Predict the Weather, was published by Keyhole Press in 2010. He is also the author of How to Take Yourself Apart, How to Make Yourself Anew, which won PANK’s First Chapbook Competition. Recent stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrelhouse, New York Tyrant, Unsaid, elimae, and others
Aaron Burch talks with friend and fellow writer Matt Bell about the release of his debut novel, In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods, as well as where the personal intersects the fictional, why empathy matters, and writing in new directions.
