Wednesday, December 27, 2023Episode 77 - Alice Jolly: "All the Places That I Have Not Seen"
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...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023Episode 76 - Nishanth Injam: The Best Possible Experience
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...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023Episode 75 - Mathieu Cailler: "A Little off the Top"
As an adolescent, Los Angeles author Mathieu Cailler accompanied his grandfather to LA comedy clubs - an experience that gave him the idea that writin...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023Episode 74 - Emma Brankin: "Eulogy for a Bastard," "The Second Miss Thompson." and "I Am a Trainwreck Actress's Vagina"
UK author Emma Brankin's debut story collection Attention Seekers features stories inspired by her former career as an entertainment columnist, w...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023Episode 73 - Leslie Kirk Campbell and Daniel A. Olivas: "City of Angels" and "Elizondo Returns Home"
California authors and fellow Stanford grads Leslie Kirk Campbell and Daniel A. Olivas reverse roles in this episode as interviewer and interviewee. T...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023Episode 72 - Jessie Ren Marshall: "After I Become a Ghost" and "Find Water Near Me"
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...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023Episode 71 - John Fulton: "Stitches"
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...
Wednesday, November 8, 2023Episode 70 - Melissa Ostrom: "Super-Absorbent Stella," "The Postscript," and "Measurements"
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...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023Episode 69 - Julee Newberger: "Along the Sound"
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...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023Episode 68 - Stephen Cicirelli: "Quitting"
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...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023Episode 67 - Grant Faulkner: "The Passenger" and "Cold Hard Cash"
California author Grant Faulkner was born and raised in Oskaloosa, Iowa - an experience that helped shape his sensibilities as a writer of stories of ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023Episode 66 - Erica Plouffe Lazure: "The Shit Branch"
New Hampshire author Erica Plouffe Lazure was born and raised in Massachusetts, but she has a particular fondness for the South - and for story-tellin...
