Academic advisor and early career development expert, Ana Homayoun, joins us to discuss her latest book, Erasing the Finish Line: The New Blueprint For Success Beyond Grades and College Admission. Written as a guide for middle schoolers, high schoolers and their families, her book focuses on the essential skills and strategies students need to be 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

The Agitators – Dorothy Wickedness’ new history of three friends who fought for abolition and women’s rights. “It’s so heart-breaking to think of all the women’s live that have been completely lost, and this of course is true for almost every African American, certainly, who are descendants of enslaved people. The histories are gone, mostly, Read More

“When we as white people adopted black children we learned that there was a whole lot that we did not know and we thought in writing this book that we could bring a perspective that might be helpful for white people in general.” Fern L. Johnson and Marlene G Fine share their insights in their Read More

Gary Kelley talks about why he created his graphic novel – Moon of the Snow Blind, ” “My uncle ..taught me to draw, Gene Kelley, had a lot of books in his house, which was not far from where I was, growing up in Algona. Some of those books kind of got me attracted to Read More

“The challenge is to keep cutting, to get to the essence,” Hal Goldstein speaks about the making of his new book, “Meditating Entrepreneurs – Create Inner Freedom and Outer Abundance. – A curated collection of talks by entrepreneurs in the Fairfield Iowa meditating community. “One of the things that characterized all these entrepreneurs is how Read More

“You have to do a lot of things to help a child get better.” Christina Adams talks about her book, her son’s autism, and camel milk in – Camel Crazy, A quest for miracles in the mysterious world of camels. “I knew …I just had this passion…it was just something I had to do. ” Read More

“Girl be Brave connects us to each other through our common need to be brave. Especially in today’s society we have so many things coming at us all the time.” Cheryl Hale shares her life and her inspiration in her new book Girl be Brave. “My heart is in there, in those pages. I tried Read More

“If there was a way to do things environmentally and socially responsible, while making money – who wouldn’t want to do that.” Adam Hammes comes to Writers Voices with a practical vision for a better future, one business at a time. “Nothing comes into a business that didn’t come from some ecosystem…In my opinion, people Read More

“We wouldn’t have the Oscar winning film, ‘The Shape of Water’, without Millicent Patrick.” In this Writers Voices Mallory O’Meara reveals her obsession with movie monsters and her admiration for the subject of her new book, ‘The Lady from the Black Lagoon – Hollywood Monsters and the lost legacy of Millicent Patrick. “She designed the Read More

“In almost all contemplative traditions…at the core of them is this sense of helping others, this sense of compassion.” Marc Lesser author and teacher talks with Writers Voices about his new book – Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader – lessons from Google and a Zen monastery kitchen -. ” I think we totally underestimate Read More

“… We need to help patients prepare for is all possible outcomes. As it stands we only talk about the good outcomes.” Sunita Puri author of – That Good Night – Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, shares insights and stories of her time as a palliative care doctor. “Part of how I ended Read More

“We were more mastering the art of sharing, than critiquing. It was less about take this apart and it was more, you know, respond to this,…how did it play upon you, what does it make you think of.” Sara Ruhl talking about her correspondence with poet Max Ritvo and her book – Letters from Max, Read More

“The book is really about being drawn instead of driven.” Dr Bryan Robinson shares his insights on stress management and his new book # Chill – Turn off your Job and Turn on Your Life. “Self care and self compassion are some of the best medicine to help us be better people…. Unfortunately many people Read More

Monica and Caroline talk food with Lisa Joy Mitchell and her new cookbook – Sacred and Delicious. …”all living creatures and all human beings have these patterns…dynamic principals that are working in our body. So we are looking to uncover what is the basic imbalance your experiencing and therefore how can we balance it….Most people Read More

“I think people who are more liberal and progressive need to stop drinking the purple kool aid that the media is serving up….I’m writing an expose about how great (the Veterans Health Administration ) is.” Journalist Suzanne Gordon speaks about veterans, health care and her new book – Wounds of War. “The VHA is way Read More

“I suspect that most if not all the people we have thought of as evil…I suspect that there has been some extreme malfunction going on in their brains, that is what I believe.” Writers Voices talks with Sue Klebold on her book – A Mother’s Reckoning – Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy, Sue is Read More

“People like ideas that have one foot in the familiar and one foot in the novel.” Allen Gannett on his new book, – The Creative Curve. ” Ideas that are familiar enough to feel safe but novel enough to be interesting, novel enough to be intriguing.”…”I think the reality is creators are creating for people Read More