(18 November 1953 – 29 October 2014)
We are all “reeling over the untimely death of [our] good friend, Derek Alger,” as Charles Salzberg writes in Honoring Derek Alger.
Derek was a graduate of the MFA fiction-writing program at Columbia University, a Contributing Editor for Serving House Journal, and a former editor-at-large at Pif Magazine, where more than 100 of his interviews with writers have been published over a period of 14 years.
Seven of those interviews appear in Serving House Journal, with four reprinted from Pif and three published in SHJ for the first time (Terese Svoboda, SHJ-2; Lauren B. Davis, SHJ-5; and Bruce Holbert, SHJ-7).
Derek’s fiction and essays appear in Confrontation, Del Sol Review, Ducts.org, The Literary Review, and Writers Notes, among others.
“One on One” Archive of the interviews at Pif Magazine
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