Poet and former associate professor at Duke University, Stephen C. Pollock, shares with us his first book of poetry, Exits. Beautifully written and elegantly told, his collection is filled with thought-provoking poems that center around life and mortality, nature and death, each paired with a work of art that complements the poem. When discussing the Read More
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
Romance and women’s fiction author, Donna Hill, chats with us to discuss her newest novel, a historical fiction, titled I Am Ayah: The Way Home. The story begins in Manhattan where we meet aspiring photographer, Alessandra Fleming, who receives an unexpected phone call one day that her estranged father is in the hospital. Alessandra decides Read More
Former Marine turned author, John Milas, joins us to discuss his chilling debut novel, The Militia House. Set in 2010 on a military base in Afghanistan, The Militia House tells the haunting tale of Corporal Alex Loyette and members of his unit as they venture into an old, abandoned militia house against the warnings of Read More
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
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
Litigator and author, Logan Steiner, joins us to share her fascinating debut novel, After Anne: A Novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Life. Her story is a fictionalized account of the life of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the famed Canadian author of the beloved Anne of Green Gables series, and tells of Maud’s marriage to a Presbyterian Read More
In Bright Kids Who Couldn’t Care Less, learning expert and associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Ellen Braaten, presents a guidebook for parents, educators, caregivers, and others who work with children, that helps to explain the lack of motivation that we see in seemingly bright children and what we as can do Read More
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
In The Gap Between: Loving and Supporting Someone with Alzheimer’s, lawyer and debut author, Mary Moreland, provides readers with an insightful resource for those caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease. Structured by theme, her book includes direction and advice on how to manage and care for the sick loved one, challenges they may Read More
Internationally acclaimed writer and #1 New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction, Ruta Sepetys, returns to Writer’s Voices to discuss her nonfiction debut,You: The Story: A Writer’s Guide to Craft Through Memory. Designed for aspiring writers, her book is a how-to for developing storytellers to use and incorporate their own life experiences and memories Read More
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
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
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
In The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly, Katherine A. Sherbrooke tells the alluring tale of Aster Kelly, a runway model, who heads to Los Angeles with aspirational dreams of becoming a fashion designer. Inspired by her own mother, the story is told in dual timelines, beginning in the late 1940’s to the mid 1970’s, and Read More
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
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
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
In A Midsummer Night’s Scheme, Harper Kincaid entertains readers with a second novel in her Bookbinding Mystery series. Set in Vienna, Virginia, this story is the sequel to To Kill a Mocking Girl, and follows Quinn Caine and her sidekicks on another mystery, but this time around the killer is targeting womanizers, including former resident Read More
Author Jeff Hobbs returns to Writer’s Voices to discuss his newest nonfiction book, Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System. In Children of the State, Hobbs takes a closer look into the personal lives of those who live and work in the juvenile detention centers, including the teachers, Read More
In her fifth published novel, author and newspaper editor Tracy Clark brings us into the world of Detective Harriet Foster in her latest crime thriller, Hide. Set in Chicago, the novel follows 43 year-old detective, Harriet Foster, as she hunts down a serial killer with a proclivity for red-haired females. Initially, Hide was intended to Read More
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
Veteran journalist and contributing editor for The Daily Beast, Goldie Taylor, visits us to share her powerful debut memoir, The Love You Save. In her book, she chronicles her difficult childhood, having been raised in East St. Louis by a single mother who worked constantly to make ends meet while she and her two older Read More
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
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
In his debut novel, Please Report Your Bug Here: A Novel, Josh Riedel takes us into the tech startup world of Silicon Valley where we meet 24-year old Ethan Block, a recent college grad who lives in San Francisco and has a job working with a new dating app called DateDate. “In the book, really Read More
Former musician, song writer, and music producer, Rick Bleiweiss, joins Writer’s Voices to discuss the second book in his Pignon Scorbion series, Murder in Haxford. Set in the fictitious town of Haxford, England, this historical detective mystery takes place in the summer of 1910, and occurs about a month after Chief Inspector Scorbion arrives in Read More
In her debut novel, The Sisters We Were, Wendy Willis Baldwin tells the emotional story of two adult sisters, Ruby and Pearl Crenshaw, and the bond they share as they work to overcome their childhood traumas. While one sister, Ruby, goes through her own major changes, it’s Pearl that has the life-changing transformation, from battling Read More
In her first published book, Have Mercy On Us, Lisa Cupolo shares with us her collection of ten extraordinary short stories, which encompass a wide variety of characters from all walks of life with many different voices. Winner of the 2020 W.S. Porter Prize for short story collections, Have Mercy On Us, includes stories set Read More
Award-winning author, Elizabeth Shick, stops by to discuss her debut novel and winner of the 2021 AWP Prize for the Novel, The Golden Land. A historical fiction set in dual timelines, “The story is about…Etta, she’s the narrator. It’s first person and she’s grieving the death of her grandmother, her Burmese grandmother, who she had Read More
Journalist, former L.A. Times reporter, and New York Times best-selling author, Sam Quinones, visits us to discuss his latest book, The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth. A follow-up to 2015’s Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic, The Least of Us tells of Read More
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
Author of Boston Globe’s best-selling novel, Clover House, Henriette Lazaridis, shares with us her newest book, Terra Nova. Set in 1910, Terra Nova is a historical fiction that chronicles the incredible tale of Edward Heywoud and James Watts, two Antarctic explorers who are racing to the South Pole, and Edward’s wife, Viola, the woman who Read More
Award-winning author and journalist, Elisa Bernick, joins us to discuss her engaging, new memoir, Departure Stories: Betty Crocker Made Matzoh Ball (and other lies). “So Departure Stories is part social history, part memoir, that uses my family’s story to explore both antisemitism and the struggle for women’s rights in Minnesota in the 1960’s and early Read More
In her debut novel, Daughters of the New Year, E.M. Tran tells the stories of three Vietnamese-American sisters whose mother emigrated from Vietnam to the United States after the Fall of Saigon. Remarkably, Tran’s novel is also told in reverse, starting in 2016 and going back to the 1970’s, spanning four decades. “It starts in Read More
Historian and journalist, Dr. Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos, visits with us to discuss her riveting new book, The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd. “In the course of writing my first book, …The Pirate Next Door: The Untold Story of Eighteenth Century Pirates’ Wives, Families, and Communities, I learned about Sarah Kidd and Read More
Former Days of Our Lives star and now author, Staci Greason, visits with us to discuss her fourth novel, All the Girls in Town. In addition to writing novels, Greason also writes essays, short stories, and screenplays. Her newest book tells the story of three women whose lives come together after they are all wronged Read More
Author of two novels and three short story collections, Peter Orner, shares with us his new book, Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin. Filled with personal essays and short stories, Still No Word from You was named after a line in a letter Orner found written from his grandfather to his grandmother. Read More
Author H.H. Leonards and CEO of R.H. Boyd Publishing, Dr. LaDonna Boyd, join us to discuss their memoir, Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus: Life, Lessons, and Leadership. Leonards is the founder of The Mansion on O Street, a place where Rosa Parks sought refuge for the last decade of her life after she was brutally Read More
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
Children’s book author, Deborah Wiles, chats with us about her biography picture book, Bobby: A Story of Robert F. Kennedy. Beautifully illustrated by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Bobby tells the life story of President John F. Kennedy’s younger brother and covers the assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy himself. “Bobby is really a Read More
Author of book reviews, essays, and short fiction, Martha Anne Toll, visits us to talk about her debut novel, Three Muses. Three Muses is the esteemed winner of the Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction and tells the story of John, a Holocaust survivor, and Katya, a prima ballerina, and the fateful events that led Read More
Emeritus professor of law and former director of Drake University’s Agricultural Law Center, Neil Hamilton, joins us to discuss his book, The Land Remains: A Midwestern Perspective On Our Past and Future. Published by Ice Cube Press, The Land Remains “tells the story of our land and our relationship to it, particularly with an Iowa Read More
Author of more than 20 books of fiction, essays, and personal narratives, Scott Russell Sanders visits with us to discuss his book, Small Marvels: Stories. The book contains a series of short stories about a fictional family, the Mills family, who lives in a fictitious town in southern Indiana. “All of the stories in the Read More
Author and poet laureate of color, Keith Recker, visits Writer’s Voices to discuss his third book on color, Deep Color: The Shades that Shape Our Souls. For Recker, “The first push into color really came out of my experience as a retailer and trying to decipher what people were thirsty for and how best to Read More
Children’s author, Rachel Vail, chats with us to discuss her newest book, Sometimes I Grumblesquinch. The story, a companion title to her best-seller,Sometimes I Bombaloo, tells of a girl named Katie who has big, angry feelings towards her little brother, Chuck. As readers engage in the story, they see as Katie grumblesquinches and suppresses her Read More
Author, painter, and sign language interpreter, Eileen Brill, joins us to discuss her debut novel, A Letter in the Wall. The idea for the novel came in 2007, when her and her family moved into her current home and an electrician stumbled upon a letter he found within the wall. The letter was addressed to Read More
Freelance journalist and parenting author, Lisa L. Lewis, speaks with us about her new book, The Sleep-Deprived Teen. In it, she explains why sleep is so important for teenagers and how detrimental it can be when they don’t get their recommended 8 to 10 hours of sleep each night. While there are things parents can Read More
High school senior and author, Polo Altynski Ross, joins us to discuss his first book, a translation of his great grandfather’s memoir titled, The Polish Prince. Before his great grandfather, Zbigniew Janczewski, passed away in 2018, he learned that Ross had a great interest in his memoir. Because of this, he gave Ross his story Read More
Annie Hartnett visits with us to discuss her newest novel, Unlikely Animals. “It is a book that is about a young woman named Emma who has returned home to a small town in New Hampshire, and she’s got a slight healing touch in her hands that she was born with, so there’s like a touch Read More