Interview with Julie Schumacher

BACKSTORY: I met Julie Schumacher almost three years ago as one of her students in University of Minnesota's MFA program, but knew her through her work and venerated reputation within the Twin Cities writing community prior to that. I first encountered her work in Book of One Hundred Truths, which won a Minnesota Book Award in 2007, and was drawn into the work at the end of the first chapter in which our narrator states, "I should probably mention something right now before this story goes...