INTERVIEWS & PODCASTS

In Season 5, Episode 2 of The Beat, I get the chance to read some of my poems, followed by a tribute to my friend and mentor, Anya Krugovoy Silver. Special thanks to LSU Press for allowing us to record Anya Silver's work.

Link: Sara Pirkle and Anya Krugovoy Silver

UA English professor Van Newell interviewed me for The Scarlet Newsletter, the publication featured on the UA English Department website.

Link: Evolution of the Writing Process

During a winter workshop at I-Park in Connecticut, Amy and I took a break to tape an interview with Stephan Allison at Wesleyan University's radio station. 

Link: River Valley Rhythms Radio Show

In this cover article for the print and online magazine, HEAL, which is a sister magazine for CURE, I discuss my coping strategies for dealing with panic attacks brought on by fear that my cancer will recur. 

Link: Facing the Fear of Recurrence

Published during our joint residency at The Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota, this article features a brief discussion of my collaboration history with my identical twin, Amy.

Link: Tunnel Visions

In the fourth and final installment of this conversation series with Anya Silver in Atticus Review, we discuss how living with cancer affects the revision process and creates a sense of urgency when it comes to submitting our work for publication. We also contemplate the necessity of certain poems and whose feedback we trust.

Link: The Impatient Patient: How Cancer Expedites Revision and Submission

This is the third part of an interview series that I conducted with Anya Silver for Atticus Review. This series has four parts, and in this installment, we discuss how living with cancer affects the writing process.

Link: Born Out of Trauma: Writing About Chronic Illness

This is the second installment of a four-part interview series I conducted with Anya Silver for Atticus Review.  In this conversation, we discuss our general cancer experiences as well as the faulty rhetoric that surrounds cancer.

Link: Cancer Rhetoric: The Illusion of Control

Jazz musician Remy Le Boeuf and I discuss the I-Park Foundation's Artists-In-Residence program, the creative process, and how having identical twins helped us collaborate with each other.

Link: River Valley Rhythms Interview

This is the first installation of a four-part interview series I conducted with Anya Silver for Atticus Review.  In this conversation, we discuss teaching writing while undergoing breast cancer treatment.

Link: Teaching Through Treatment