Interview with Lin Elizabeth

HH: Who/what is your muse and why?  

Lin:  I feel like life is my muse.

HH: What is your current writing process?  

Lin:  I’m really starting to take observational poetry a bit more seriously— I’ve always been the ‘confessional’ poet of any group, just very weary my trauma on my sleeve because it was soothing. Now that I’m working on maintaining peace over my trauma I’m learning to have gratitude in the small things and love the task of transmuting something mundane to a beautiful snippet of words.

HH: Who is/are your biggest fan(s)?  

Lin:  Oh god, my biggest fan is my dad, and my sister and forever my biggest fans.

HH: What's the one thing you love about publishers and what's the one thing you hate about them?  

Lin:  None and none!

HH: What is the one thing you dislike about writing?  

Lin:  (haha) I hate EDITING. I loathe it. I put it off until very last, which is one of my most problematic traits when it comes to writing, I feel the value in raw material a lot more than over edited, worrying about a comma and where it’s places makes me feel like if I worry that much, my words aren’t that important.

HH:  If you could collaborate on a project with anyone, who would it be?  Lin:  I would love to work with Zora Howard, an old head spoken word poet from New York. She’s amazing. Also Ross Gay, recently. He just blows me out of the water.

HH: What do you fear?  

Lin:  I fear a lot of things. I have an irrational fear of a multitude of things but I think the core is I am scared of being reckless with my life while trying to understand I must live larger than I am comfortable with to really grow.

HH: Top 3 places you would like to read in the future?   

Lin: I would love to read at the strand in nyc, I would also be so honored to read to my grandmother who is states away from me but I haven’t had to opportunity to see her. I don’t have a third dream place.

HH: Tell us about your darkest fantasy.  

Lin: I don’t have dark fantasies! I don’t like to classify fantasies are bad or dark unless they are doing harm onto others. I think it’s harmful dialect to some communities; but a secret dream I guess that I would hate to admit but if I had the money to spare, I would drop $300 on a perfume, which I know is crazy self indulgent but I love scent. It is across the board the most grounding thing for me and it helps me a lot. Even if it’s $300, it smells like a dream.

HH: What's next on the cards for Lin Elizabeth?  

Lin: In the cards is a very exciting debut with BULLSHIT LIT, it’s a book of poems where, the speaker of the poems goes through the throes of family ties being constricting, money being earned the precarious ways, and getting sober. It’s a beautiful compilation and I’m so honored & excited to release it.