Nearly all member cities are in Europe, but the US has begun to follow suit, with programs in Las Vegas, Ithaca, Pittsburgh, and Detroit. Laura Kraftowitz is the co-founder of City of Asylum/Detroit. In the following interview, she shares insight into the experiences of establishing this kind of program here in our city...

A conversation with Laura Kraftowitz, Founding Executive Director of City of Asylum/Detroit

June 15, 2026

literature, activism, culture - detroit city

Ghanaian American author Esinam Bediako has been honored for her debut novel Blood on the Brain, set to launch in September of 2024 in Brooklyn, New York. Born and raised in Metro-Detroit, Bediako’s story of a young woman, Akosua, who is also a Ghanaian American from Detroit, highlights challenges of growing into adulthood in the United States...

An interview with Esinam Bediako

September 9, 2024

literature, culture - detroit city

Last week Runner Magazine published the play Is It Morning Yet? by will street. In this interview, he discusses his play, past works and influences throughout time...

Interview by Ashley Cook

February 13, 2023

theater, literature - detroit city

With over 40 books in print, many of them sold out, there seems to be a vast array of different artists included in the Rotland Press collection, however there is a consistency in its visual and literary aesthetic, “mordant amusement and exuberant despair”...

An interview with Ryan Standfest

November 7, 2022

literature, culture - detroit city