In this week’s #TenQuestions, T. Geronimo Johnson channels the voice of “America’s indomitable ghost writer, da Whizz—the original AI,” answering questions the same way he wrote his sweeping new novel, The Occidental Book of the Dead, out now from William Morrow. Read more: at.pw.org/10q4johnson.

“Sometimes I know I need to just observe and live life and let the writing come later.” For this week’s #TenQuestions, Tomas Moniz discusses writing his new novel, The King of Aloe Vera, out now from Algonquin Books. Read more: at.pw.org/10q4moniz.

For this week’s #TenQuestions, Kiki Petrosino dives into the process of writing her new collection, Perfect Italian, out now from Sarabande Books. “Writing in syllabics became my ritual. It allowed for the space of the page to hold me.” Read more: at.pw.org/10q4petrosino.

“I got interested in writing sentences, in seeing what the sentence could do as opposed to the line.” For this week’s #TenQuestions, Brittany Perham discusses experimenting with prose in her new memoir, Executrix, out now from the University of Georgia Press. Read more: at.pw.org/10q4perham.

For this week’s #TenQuestions, Paisley Rekdal considers the work that went into writing her new poetry collection, Heritance, out now from Copper Canyon Press. “I think it was probably a release to write as myself again.” Read more: bit.ly/10q4rekdal.