keep it 100

100 words with writer Keely O'Shaughnessy

Keely O'Shaughnessy, managing editor of Flash Fiction Magazine, kicks off the mashup’s new micro-interview series, Keep It 100. Answers can be any length, but the total word count—including my 8 questions—can’t exceed 100 words.

If you’d like to be interviewed, email me or drop a comment below.

10-word bio

Writer, editor, Cerebral Palsy-haver and big Bowie fan.

Favorites          

• writing spot: I have a desk, but honestly most times I write hunched over my laptop on the sofa

  

• writers: Jhumpa Lahiri, Raymond Carver, Jules Archer, Kathy Fish and more

• social media: Twitter

Coffee or Champagne?

Piña colada or tea

Total WIPs

Three, unless you count the tabs on my Notes app

Fiction or Non?

Fiction! I gravitate to flash! Eagerly awaiting my copy of Amy Cipolla Barnes’ debut collection Ambrotypes.

Weirdest Job Ever

One summer, as teenager, I worked at a petting zoo in an 11th century castle