Assistant professor of English at the University of Arizona, Johanna Skibsrud is a poet and fiction writer. Her debut novel,&nbsp;The Sentimentalists, was awarded the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, making her the youngest writer to win Canada’s most prestigious literary prize. Recent publications include a novel, Island (Penguin 2019), a collection of essays,&nbsp;“The nothing that is”: Essays on Art, Literature and Being&nbsp;(Book*hug, 2019) and a critical monograph,&nbsp;The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics&nbsp;(McGill Queens, 2020).&nbsp;

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Assistant professor of English at the University of Arizona, Johanna Skibsrud is a poet and fiction writer. Her debut novel,&nbsp;The Sentimentalists, was awarded the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, making her the youngest writer to win Canada’s most prestigious literary prize. Recent publications include a novel, Island (Penguin 2019), a collection of essays,&nbsp;“The nothing that is”: Essays on Art, Literature and Being&nbsp;(Book*hug, 2019) and a critical monograph,&nbsp;The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics&nbsp;(McGill Queens, 2020).&nbsp;

Johanna Skibsrud

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Touching the Impossible: A Conversation with Slava Polunin