New Jersey author Bill Merklee was playing in rock bands when he began working for a newspaper that had a tuition reimbursement program. It was his re...

Philadelphia author Matthew Goldberg's fiction, as described on his website, "reimagines the mundane through the lens of the absurd." His speculative ...

Award-winning UK author Alice Jolly had 5 novels to her credit prior to publishing her first story collection - but she'd been writing stories the who...

Nishanth Injam was raised in Telangana, India, and now makes his home in the US, in the Chicago area. His debut story collection, The Best Possible Ex...

As an adolescent, Los Angeles author Mathieu Cailler accompanied his grandfather to LA comedy clubs - an experience that gave him the idea that writin...

UK author Emma Brankin's debut story collection Attention Seekers features stories inspired by her former career as an entertainment columnist, w...

California authors and fellow Stanford grads Leslie Kirk Campbell and Daniel A. Olivas reverse roles in this episode as interviewer and interviewee. T...

Hawai'i author Jessie Ren Marshall began publishing her own writing at a very early age. And her confidence as a writer was evident even then, as...

Massachusetts author John Fulton's fiction has the power to cast an unusual kind of spell upon its readers. He might, at times, deftly weave elem...

Before Western New York author Melissa Ostrom fell in love with reading and long before she began writing stories, all she wanted to do was play. And...

Virginia author Julee Newberger's life was upended when she learned, at the age of forty, that she'd been adopted - information she received only afte...

New Jersey author Stephen Cicirelli has a penchant for philosophy - and it shows up in his stories in surprising ways. But there's nothing academic ab...