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Crystal K. Odelle

An Interview with Erika Wurth

I met Erika when she was living in Albuquerque on sabbatical from her academic job. She quickly found her way into the writing community here for good reasons: She is funny and quirky and smart. Really smart. And talented–as a poet and a novelist. But what I have admired about her most is her tenacity and persistence. Her latest novel, You Who Enter Here about native gang life in Albuquerque was rejected several times by publishers not because it is not good, but because the subject matter was dark… though one reviewer said the novel  was “… a darkly splendid achievement.” SUNY Press published the book earlier this year and it’s a good thing they did. Life doesn’t always end up wrapped in a pretty little bow, and tough stories need to be told. Plume: When did you know that you were a writer?Erika Wurth: I’m not exactly sure, but I remember vaguely that I wanted to be an inventor when I was maybe five or six. And then, even though I knew absolutely nobody who was a writer, and perhaps because I was such a big reader, I decided pretty quickly after that that I wanted to be a writer. I had no idea what that entailed, though, but for some reason it kept on with me, and here I am, all of these years later with all of the big, bad and occasional, wonderful good things that entails.P: Where do you get your ideas?EW: I don’t really know. That’s always been a difficult question for me because ideas are always crowding me out – and I’m always working on multiple writing projects at one time. I don’t go searching for ideas or experience writers block. I know what inspires me, though, and I definitely am interested in writing my own poetic and imaginative version of what I know, which is mainly contemporary Native American life, whether that has to do with Native gangs, or Mayan-like civilizations in other galaxies. P: How supportive is your local community for writers?EW: I live part time in Denver and part time in rural Illinois. And Denver has become an amazing city for writers, and I feel deeply supported by folks here. There are loads of reading series, for example, featuring writers in every part of their careers. And although Western Illinois University where I teach and live part time is a small … Read more

 
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