Steven Archer is a queer, Haitian-Peruvian writer from Hollywood, Florida. An alum of the Tin House autumn workshop, he holds an MFA from the University of Central Florida, where he was provost fellow in fiction. His work has appeared in AGNI and The Superstition Review. Twitter/X and Instagram.
In the 4th episode of SH@25, Editor Kat Kourbeti sits down with tabletop game designer and SFF critic Kyle Tam, whose young career has taken off in the last few years. Read on for an insightful interview about narrative storytelling from non-Western perspectives, the importance of schlock and trash in the development of taste, and the windows into creativity we find in moments of hardship.
After the disaster—after the litigation, the endless testimony, the needling comments of the defendant’s counsel—there is at last a settlement, with no party admitting error, and the state recognizing no victim, least of all yourself. Although the money cannot mend any of the overturned things left behind, it can pay for college, so that’s where you go next.
