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Filippo Beltrami speaks with Lydia Renfro about her short story Greetings From, featured in The Brussels Review Winter 2025 issue. The conversation explores Renfro’s literary formation, her time living in Turkey, and how place, food, language, and cultural displacement inform her writing. The discussion expands into literature’s role in a globalized world, the importance of walking and landscape in creative practice, cross-disciplinary artistic influences, and Renfro’s current and forthcoming projects in fiction and poetry.
Lydia Renfro holds an MFA from Adelphi University and is the recipient of the Donald Everett Axinn Award for Fiction. She works primarily in short fiction and poetry, with a strong focus on place-based narratives and interior experience. She currently lives in the United States. More of her work can be found at lydiarenfro.com.
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