Laura Relyea & Guy Mendes
Laura Relyea is Executive Editor of ArtsATL. Her book, All Glitter, Everything, a collection of flash prose, was released by Deer Bear Wolf in March 2015. A portion of the book was included in the 2015 & Now Experimental Fiction Anthology, released biennially by the University of Notre Dame.
Guy Mendes was born in 1948 and raised and in New Orleans. He migrated to Kentucky in 1966 where he was lucky to fall in with a group of teachers and friends including Wendell Berry, Gene Meatyard and James Baker Hall. He has had three books published: Local Light, Light at Hand (both by Gnomon Press), and 40/40-Forty Years Forty Portraits (Institute 193).
It’s a brisk February afternoon in Lexington, Kentucky, and Louis Zoeller Bickett II and I are sitting in his office, which is lined with 500 binders. A few shelves of author-signed books, all of them tagged and indexed, stand in the room behind me. Our coffee mugs are not tagged, but the small Windsor chair I’m sitting in is.
