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Ep. 173 Jessica Walker (opens the original)
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Jessica Walker is a multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, filmmaker, and educator, she is an assistant professor of fine arts at Parsons and has exhibited films, books, and 2D media in solo and group shows in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, and Australia. Her work is housed in the permanent collections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Research Library, Yale University Haas Family Arts Library, and the University of Washington Art Library. Her new book is a debut novel cal
Ep. 172 Hester Kaplan (opens the original)
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Hester Kaplan is the author of two story collections, T he Edge of Marriage (University of Georgia Press, and Norton), which received The Flannery O’Connor Prize for Short Fiction; and Unravished (Ig Publishing); the novels The Tell (HarperCollins) and Kinship Theory (Little, Brown). Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Story, Glimmer Train, Southwest Review, and Indiana Review and others, and has been widely anthologized, including in The Best American Short Stories, Creature Needs, and Provi
Ep. 171 Marian Yee (opens the original)
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Writer, scholar, and award-winning teacher, Marian Yee teaches writing, literature and contemporary art to performing art students at Berklee College of Music. Her published writings include poems, reviews, and scholarly articles. Her debut novel is 4 JANES , published by Little A. Listen in as she and discuss the sheer joy of writing fan fiction. The QWERTY podcast is brought to you by the book, The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life . Read it, and begin your
Ep. 170 Rachel Weaver (opens the original)
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Rachel Weaver is a writer, author, essayist, memoirist and teacher. She is the author of the novel, Point of Direction which Oprah Magazine named a Top Ten Book To Pick Up Now, and won the 2015 Willa Cather Award for Fiction. Her new book, a debut memoir, is Dizzy , just out from West Virginia Press. Listen in as she and I discuss how to write a braided memoir. The QWERTY podcast is brought to you by the book, The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life . Read it, a
Ep. 169 Nicole Walker (opens the original)
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Nicole Walker is the author of several books, including, “ Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster” and “The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet.” She edits the “Crux” series at the University of Georgia Press, is the nonfiction editor at the journal “Diagram” and teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University.. Her new book is How to Plant a Billion Trees: A Memoir of Childhood Trauma and the Healing Power of Nature , just out from Bloom
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