Interview with Jana Zilova of Prague School of Creative Communication

JZ: How was the transition for you from poetry to fiction? Or have you always written both? Do you feel there is a different creative “mindset” for each?

ACV: The image that these questions bring to mind is from an old movie called Splash (quite literally a fish-out-of-water tale) in which a mermaid tries to understand life on land while keeping her finned identity a secret. At one point, she steals a moment and a canister of salt to take a bath and let her land-legs become a tail again for a bit. The luxuriant smile that spreads across her face as her tail unfurls is a visual representation of the feeling I get when I write fiction.