Hawaiian author Melissa Llanes Brownlee explains life on the islands as only an indigenous person who was born and raised there can. In her fiction, H...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023Episode #36 - Avitus B. Carle: "That Feeling of Life"
Author Avitus B. Carle lives and writes just on the edge of Philadelphia. She has built a remarkable body of work, creating some of the most memorable...
Wednesday, January 4, 2023Episode #35 - Stephanie Parent: "Deer, Girl"
Baltimore, MD author Stephanie Parent reveals some of the mysteries of her lived experience as a submissive in a commercial BDSM dungeon while living ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022Episode #34 - Farah Ali: "Bulletproof Bus"
Pakistani author Farah Ali lives with her family in Dubai, but her ties to her childhood home of Karachi run deep. It's often the background against w...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022Episode #33 - First Annual Holiday Episode!
We celebrate the holidays with a cavalcade of holiday-themed short stories, written by some of the best contemporary writers in the field. Six profess...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022Episode #32 - Cheryl Pappas: "This Violent and Cherished Earth"
In writing speculative fiction, Massachusetts author Cheryl Pappas sees a responsibility "to acknowledge the strange in everything." The co...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022Episode #31 - Elizabeth Trueblood: "Life Partners"
Wisconsin-born author Elizabeth Trueblood writes stories that sometimes dance around the speculative, and at other times dive headlong into it. She po...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022Episode #30 - Steven Ostrowski: "Ensemble of One" and "Even on Good Nights"
Connecticut author Steven Ostrowski started life as a scrappy city kid from a large family on Staten Island. He developed a love of ice hockey back th...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022Episode #29 - Meagan Arthur: "The Telling is Clean"
Utah-based author Meagan Arthur uses her stories to explore consciousness, and examine the "boundaried way of making meaning that we have inherited." ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022Episode #28 - Whitney Collins: "Bjorn"
Kentucky author Whitney Collins spent 20 years writing non-fiction for pay before she decided it was time to take a chance with fiction. With guidance...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022Episode #27 - Molly Andrea-Ryan: "Idle Hands"
As the child of a father in the armed services, Pittsburgh PA author Molly Andrea-Ryan found herself moving frequently to a new town. Looking for a wa...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022Episode #26 - Claire Polders: "The Men on the Fence"
Globe-trotting author Claire Polders writes the kind of novels and stories that are only possible from one who possesses a deep understanding of the w...
