In Episode 52 of Literary Prospects, we talk with author Ananda Lima about her fiction debut, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil.
Ananda is a poet, translator, and fiction writer born in Brasília, Brazil, now living in Chicago, IL. She’s the author of the poetry collection Mother/land, winner of the Hudson Prize, and her critically acclaimed fiction debut, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, is out now. Ananda’s work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere, and she has been awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from Rutgers University.
In this interview, Ananda talks about how a self-described “wimp” who’s afraid of scary movies ended up writing horror, what fascinates her about the devil, how her poetry informs her fiction (and vice versa), learning to trust her own instincts as a writer, and much more…