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Publish Frequently by Frequently Being in the State of Writing: An Interview with Andrew Naiberg on MFA Payday
Andrew Najberg is the author of the speculative horror novel Gollitok (Cactus Moon Press, 2023), the collection of poems The Goats Have Taken Over the Barracks (Finishing Line Press, 2021), and the chapbook Easy to Lose (Finishing Line Press 2007). His short fiction has appeared in Prose Online, Psychopomp Review, Bookends Review, Wondrous Real, Utopia Science Fiction and others.
His poems have appeared in dozens of journals online and in print, including North American Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and Good River Review. An AWP Intro award recipient and the 2022 National Poetry Month Brain Mills Press grand prize winner, he received an MFA in poetry from Spalding University and an MA in creative writing from University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Currently, he teaches for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and is serving as a senior editor for Symposeum magazine. Symposeum Issue 4 has just been released, and is the product, Andrew says, "of a lot of work and collaboration" and he's proud to be a part of it.