Storytelling With Bisi B

Sarah Leamy is an award winning author, editor, and publisher. Originally from England, she's lived in Europe, Guatemala and the States. She runs a literary travel writing website, www.wanderlust-journal.com.

Kim Gryphon is a non-binary and lesbian-identified writer who lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They were born and raised in the Boston area and moved to Santa Fe to attend College of Santa Fe, where they received a BA in Politics. They later completed an MA in American Studies at the University of New Mexico. kim is a non-native white person of Irish heritage and aims to create work in revolutionary community to disrupt the dominance of racism and settler-colonialism. They hope to smash the patriarchy and contribute to new narratives for gender, sex, and love. kim's first self-published novel, Shadow Flare, is a queer Young Adult science fiction story, and you can find this, and other works, at kimgryphon.net

In honor of the passing of the wonderful, amazingly talented, Toni Morrison, a bonus episode.

Noro Otitigbe is a novel-writing poetry reciting ocean-loving world discovering creator. Otitigbe is an NYU graduated New York-bred-Nigeria created full of life exhilarated ambitious and self-motivated citizen of the world.

Placid Bone, M.D. combines the best of Eastern medicine and Western science. Mortality & Magic: Facts & Fairytales for the Hereafter, weaves together proved medical insight with parodies of classic fairy tales into a humorous guide on the ups and downs of death and dying. It is a good book on dying well. While becoming a board-certified physician, Dr. Bone studied mortality around the world and received a medical degree from New York University, and emergency medicine training at Harvard and Yale.

Candace Walsh is a fiction candidate in Warren Wilson College's MFA program. Her short story, "The Sandbox Story," is forthcoming from Akashic Books' Santa Fe Noir. She is the author of Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Identity. She co-edited Dear John: I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women and its sequel. She is the editor in chief of El Palacio magazine. Her essays have been published in Cactus Heart, Into, and in various anthologies. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @candacewalsh.

Originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, Zoe Baillargeon is a writer, actor, journalist, and performer with an incurable case of wanderlust that has taken her all over the world. With a degree in theater and creative writing from Santa Fe University of Art and Design, she has spent the last three years living in Chile, where she's worked as a freelance travel and food writer for Chilean and international media outlets. Her journalism has been published in, among others, the Santa Fe Reporter, Patagon Journal, Roads and Kingdoms, TravelAge West, and Atlas Obscura, and her creative writing have been featured on readcereal.com, the Santa Fe Reporter, Glyph,1905 Magazine, and in her self-published chapbook, "Fernweh". She's currently working on her first book.

Jacey Ellis is currently living and attempting to write in Colorado Springs. Her work focuses mainly on the body, its place in culture, and the mind. She often questions sanity and reality through short form work and continues to explore her boundaries with content and style. Recent works have been featured in Glyph, and she is hopefully going to start a blog to house all of her random, crazy writings that maybe people would like to look at. She has her BA in Creative Writing and Literature.

Kathryn Kingsberry works as a fiction writer by night and for a software company by day. She wrote her first complete manuscript in the sixth grade and hasn’t stopped writing since. She is based in Encino, California accompanied by her Chihuahua-mix Frannie and stacks of assorted paperbacks. “I Hope This Finds You Well” is her first published novel.

Ana June was born in Prescott, AZ, and grew up in Santa Fe, NM. In 2017, she earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of New Mexico. Her work has appeared in the Hip Mama anthology, "Breeder: Voices from the New Generation of Mothers"; Hip Mama, The Rumpus, The Santa Fe Literary Review, and New Mexico Magazine. She has a short story, "After the Flood," coming out in an anthology entitled "Santa Fe Noir" in 2020 with Akashic Press. Ana is currently at work on a memoir and a novel. Starting in the fall of 2019 she will be an Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, Valencia Campus.

Candelora Versace lives in a log house on a dead-end dirt road on a mountain outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Before focusing on fiction, poetry, and personal essay, she wrote about Santa Fe’s arts and culture for many years as an award-winning freelance journalist. She has just published her first novel, “Traveling Light: a novelita,” available on Amazon.com in paperback and kindle.

Candelora Versace lives in a log house on a dead-end dirt road on a mountain outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Before focusing on fiction, poetry, and personal essay, she wrote about Santa Fe’s arts and culture for many years as an award-winning freelance journalist. She has just published her first novel, “Traveling Light: a novelita,” available on Amazon.com in paperback and kindle.

WARNING - This episode contains adult language. Award-winning author of “The Caregiver” and “night’s swift dragons.” Bonnie Bee uncovers the details of her neuroses and passions through the striations of her writing. She is abstract, visceral, and intimate, happy to look into the abyss, and content to live outside expectations. Advocate for criminal justice reform. Cat enthusiast.