Selena Anderson
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Selena Anderson is a PhD candidate at University of Houston and completed her MFA at Columbia University. Her work appears in Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, AGNI, and elsewhere. She is working on a collection of stories and a novel. | |
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photo credit: Jai-Lee Egna |
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The characters in the fiction I like to read always want something. They want to find a white whale, they want to save the farm, they want to live, they want to be loved, they want to win in life. In certain stories and novels sometimes it's hard to say what exactly a character wants, but in the ones that I love, I always have a strong sense that they do want something. It is not important to me why characters want certain things or whether or not they ultimately succeed in getting them. For me, it's the wanting part that makes a character attractive. The wanting part makes the story timeless and universal because every one of us has wanted something. When we recognize this in another character it ignites something inside us that says, Yeah. | |