Lisa Cornwell

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Sports journalist and former Golf Channel anchor, Lisa Cornwell, visits Writer’s Voices to discuss her riveting memoir in Troublemaker: A Memoir of Sexism, Retaliation, and the Fight They Didn’t See Coming. Co-written by Tucker Booth, her book details the hostile environment she worked in while employed at the Golf Channel, and the discrimination, and subsequent Read More

Bryn Turnbull

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Internationally bestselling author, Bryn Turbull, visits Writer’s Voices to share her latest historical fiction, The Paris Deception. Set in Nazi-occupied Paris, her novel follows two women, Sophie, an art conservator, and her estranged sister-in-law, Fabienne, a bohemian artist, as they work together to replace stolen “Degenerate” art, a collection of modern art specifically hated by Read More

Chris Jones

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Former Research Engineer with IHHR-Hydroscience & Engineering at the University of Iowa, Chris Jones, visits Writer’s Voices to share his book of essays highlighting the truth behind Iowa’s poor water quality in The Swine Republic: Struggles with the Truth about Agriculture and Water Quality. Published by Ice Cube Press, The Swine Republic describes how Iowa’s Read More

Ashley Winstead

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Academic turned novelist, Ashley Winstead, visits Writer’s Voices to discuss her latest romantic comedy, The Boyfriend Candidate. Set in Austin, Texas, this witty novel follows elementary school librarian, Alexis Stone, as she decides to pursue a one-night stand after the end of her last relationship. What she doesn’t expect is to meet fiery, gubernatorial candidate, Read More

Shelley Puhak

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Critically acclaimed writer and author of three award-winning books of poetry, Shelley Puhak, shares with us her fascinating nonfiction debut, The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World. Her story about two rival, medieval queens, Brunhild and Fredegund, surfaced when she was doing research on another project. As she learned more about Read More

Janie Paul

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Artist, curator, and author, Janie Paul, joins us to discuss her riveting new book about integrating art in the Michigan prison systems, Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance. Paul, along with her late husband Buzz Alexander, co-founded The Annual Exhibitions of Artists in Michigan Prisons, an organization that hosts yearly exhibitions at the University Read More

Rebecca Keller

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Award-winning writer and internationally exhibited artist, Rebecca A. Keller, visits us to share her exciting debut novel, You Should Have Known. In this mystery thriller, 72-year-old retired nurse Frannie Green is grieving the loss of her granddaughter, Bethany, and has recently moved into an assisted living facility after injuring her knee. While there, she befriends Read More

Meg Eden Kuyatt

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Neurodivergent author and creative-writing instructor, Meg Eden Kuyatt, shares her debut novel geared towards middle-grade readers in Good Different. “So, Good Different is about an autistic girl who wishes she was powerful like a dragon and learns to find her power through writing poems.” Written in verse, the heroine, Selah, is experiencing what many middle-school Read More

Dr. Ricardo Nuila

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In The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine, Dr. Ricardo Nuila tells a fascinating, eye-opening story about the American healthcare system and follows the journeys of five uninsured individuals, each with their own extreme health crises, who find their way to Ben Taub Hospital, a charity hospital in Houston, Texas, where they were Read More

Kate Zernike

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New York Times reporter and journalist, Kate Zernike, visits us to share her latest book, The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science. Based on the story she broke for The Boston Globe, The Exceptions tells the true story of sixteen female scientists who spoke out against the discrimination of female Read More

Nancy Regan

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TV and podcast host, Nancy Regan, shares her candid, debut memoir, From Showing Off to Showing Up: An Imposter’s Journey from Perfect to Present. Part memoir and part self-help, her book delves into her evolution from someone who judged herself too harshly and worried about what others thought of her to letting down her guard, Read More

Don McLeese

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Former Chicago Sun-Times and Austin American-Statesman music critic and now journalism professor, Don McLeese, joins us to discuss his riveting new memoir, Slippery Steps: Rolling and Tumbling Toward Sobriety. Published by Ice Cube Press, the memoir delves into McLeese’s alcohol dependence, his denial regarding his substance abuse, and how Alcoholics Anonymous eventually helped him down Read More

Sariah Wilson

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In her twenty-fourth published novel, The Chemistry of Love, USA Today best-selling author, Sariah Wilson, writes about Anastasia “Anna” Ellis, a cosmetic chemist, who engages in a fake romance with Marco, the half brother of Anna’s boss, Craig, whose heart Anna is trying to win over. When creating this novel, Wilson said, “I knew that Read More

Michael Tougias Extreme Survival

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New York Times bestselling author, Michael Tougias, returns to Writer’s Voices to discuss his riveting survival biography, Extreme Survival: Lessons From Those Who Have Triumphed All Odds. Filled with real-life accounts from survivors who have faced extreme circumstances, Extreme Survival also includes survival techniques that readers can use in many different situations and in everyday Read More

Tova Friedman

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84-year-old Tova Friedman, one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, visits us to discuss her haunting memoir, The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope. Co-written by Malcom Brabant, Friedman’s memoir details the vivid memories she had of her survival in a Jewish ghetto, Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz. With so few Read More