Interweaving #20 - Award-Winning Author Pedro Ponce

In this episode of Interweaving, host Nicole Roché talks with author Pedro Ponce, who won the 2020 Don Belton Fiction Prize for his new short story collection, The Devil and the Dairy Princess. They discuss his narrative use of misdirection, “unreliable omniscience,” and much more. The book was published in October 2021 by Indiana University Press.

For a transcript as well as additional audio from the interview, see the full story at https://www.weavenews.org/stories/2021/10/26/pedro-ponce-interview.

Featured in this episode

Pedro Ponce at St. Lawrence University
https://www.stlawu.edu/people/dr-pedro-ponce

The Devil and the Dairy Princess (Indiana University Press, 2021)
https://iupress.org/9780253058607/the-devil-and-the-dairy-princess/ 

Communal Narratives and the Danger of Imagination: Pedro Ponce Discusses His Award-Winning Story Collection (Weave News)
https://www.weavenews.org/stories/2021/10/26/pedro-ponce-interview