Novelists Devi Laskar (The Atlas of Reds and Blues, Counterpoint, 2019), an alumna of Under the Volcano’s fiction master classes, and Elizabeth Rosner (Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory, Counterpoint, 2017), Under the Volcano memoir and non-fiction faculty, spoke about the challenges of writing from the trauma of racism and the Holocaust and the literary friendship that brought them together. Summer 2020.