Ivy Pochoda is the author of the novel Visitation Street published by Ecco / Dennis Lehane Book. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Huffington Post, Self, and House & Garden. She teaches creative writing at the Writing Workshops Los Angeles and works as a freelance editor.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Realistic, If Not Real
Ivy Pochoda interviews writer Sebastian Rotella about his new novel, “Rip Crew.”...
A Deeper Pull of Blood: An Interview with Lee Clay Johnson
Lee Clay Johnson talks to Ivy Pochoda about his new book, "Nitro Mountain."...
The Mask and the Mask Slipping
An interview with Megan Abbott....
The Canvas Is Limitless
Ivy Pochoda interviews Alafair Burke....
We Create a Lot of Widows
One of the reasons I say, “Get the story down first,” is because it’s the last thing I’m interested in, so I just lay it down like a base coat of paint....
Marriage, Bennington Style: Ivy Pochoda on Susan Scarf Merrell’s “Shirley”
Susan Scarf Merrell's "Shirley" is neither a tribute nor a derivation....
On How to Take a Swing: "Good Prose" by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd
In perfecting her backhand, Ivy Pochoda comes up with a way to write a new novel....
An Elaborate Lie: David Samuel Levinson’s Literary Hall of Mirrors
A complex and convoluted web of literary espionage, petty crime, gun violence, and revenge by David Samuel Levinson....
