Tiny Interview #4 - Tara Isabel Zambrano
Here we ask authors we admire to share their musings on art and writing, spill their current reading obsessions, and give us a tiny wedge into their creative life. In this Tiny Interview, meet Tara Isabel Zambrano whose piece "Some Sort of Code" was published in Issue Six of Tiny Molecules.
(Interviewed by Cameron Finch)
Q: What book(s) are you reading right now?
A: Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang. The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House. My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales.
Q: What are your current writing projects?
A: One flash, three short stories - all Magical Realism.
Q: Do any other art forms influence your writing? If so, how?
A: I love to listen to Indian music, especially ghazals. They bring the lyrical flavor to my writing.
Q: Where is your favorite place to write, and do you have any writing rituals?
A: My desk, no rituals, just whenever I can find time to write. It may be at the beginning of the day or at the end of it, or sandwiched between my work projects during the week.
Q: Who is a writer you wish more people were reading?
A: In general, I feel people should read more South Asian Literature and more translations to embrace themselves to all the diversity we have in the world. I'd particularly love to give a shout-out to The Seven Moons of Maali Almeda by Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka and When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar. And as for translation efforts, Jenny Bhatt's newsletter, "We Are All Translators" has a wealth of translation titles!
