Wake Up, Life is Transient: An Interview with Katharine Dion
by Alice Miller
Alice Miller talks with Katharine Dion about her debut novel, the thorniness of sincerity, the way a poem leaps, and the crucial gift of staying alert.
Alice Miller is a writer from New Zealand living in Berlin. She is the author of Nowhere Nearer (Pavilion & Auckland University Press), which is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and The Limits (Shearsman & Auckland University Press). She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the International Institute of Modern Letters. Alice’s work has appeared in Boston Review, Oxford Poetry, BBC Travel, Poetry London, Narrative, Five Dials, The Rialto, and The American Scholar. She has received the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award, the Royal Society of NZ Manhire Prize, a Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship, and has travelled to Antarctica courtesy of Antarctica NZ.
Alice Miller talks with Katharine Dion about her debut novel, the thorniness of sincerity, the way a poem leaps, and the crucial gift of staying alert.