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Send us a textBuy Me A CoffeeSummaryIn this conversation, Dr. Zed Zha and Dr. Zeest Khan discuss the complexities of the patient-doctor relationship, particularly in the context of Long COVID. They explore the systemic issues that lead to mistrust in the medical system, the importance of patient advocacy, and the need for a shift in medical culture towards collaboration and understanding. Dr. Zha shares insights from her platform, 'Ask the Patient,' where she gathers feedback from patients to improve medical practice. The discussion emphasizes the need for physicians to recognize their power dynamics with patients and to adopt more compassionate, patient-centered approaches in their care.Dr Zed Zha, MDZed is a physician and author. As a medical culture critic, she is committed to addressing critical issues such as medical misogyny, racism, anti-fatness, and ableism. As a feminist patient advocate, her writing brings to light the often-unspoken challenges within the healthcare system that fracture trust between patients and clinicians and find the common path for us to move forward together. Her nonfiction book defining medical consent is currently in the process of being acquired. Zed is also a storyteller. Her upcoming nonfiction children's book titled Why We Eat Fried Peanuts: A Celebration of Family and Lunar New Year, comes out in January 2025 by becker&mayer! Her Iive performance about her thieving mother is available on The Noturnists Podcast and on Youtube by the Bellevue Literary Review.Support the showSubscribe for more at LongCovidMD.substack.com, and follow Dr Khan on X @doctor_zeest

Set over the course of a single day, an electrifying debut novel from “a powerful new literary voice” (Vogue) following one woman's journey across a transformed city, carrying the weight of her past and a fervent hope for the future. Last night, you and I were safe. Last night, in another universe, your father and I stood fighting in the kitchen. Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. With no way to reach her husband, no phone or money, and a city left in chaos, there's nothing to do but walk. Making her way across the wreckage of Portland, Annie experiences human desperation and kindness: strangers offering help, a riot at a grocery store, and an unlikely friendship with a young mother. As she walks, Annie reflects on her struggling marriage, her disappointing career, and her anxiety about having a baby. If she can just make it home, she's determined to change her life. A propulsive debut, Tilt is a primal scream of a novel about the disappointments and desires we all carry, and what each of us will do for the people we love. Emma Pattee is a climate journalist and a fiction writer living in Portland, Oregon. She's written about climate change for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and more. In 2021, she coined the term “Climate Shadow” to describe an individual's potential impact on climate change. Her fiction has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Idaho Review, New Orleans Review, Carve Magazine, Citron Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review. Recommended Books: KJ Charles, A Seditious Affair Danzy Senna, Colored Television Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection Rob Franklin, Great Black Hope Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Set over the course of a single day, an electrifying debut novel from “a powerful new literary voice” (Vogue) following one woman's journey across a transformed city, carrying the weight of her past and a fervent hope for the future. Last night, you and I were safe. Last night, in another universe, your father and I stood fighting in the kitchen. Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. With no way to reach her husband, no phone or money, and a city left in chaos, there's nothing to do but walk. Making her way across the wreckage of Portland, Annie experiences human desperation and kindness: strangers offering help, a riot at a grocery store, and an unlikely friendship with a young mother. As she walks, Annie reflects on her struggling marriage, her disappointing career, and her anxiety about having a baby. If she can just make it home, she's determined to change her life. A propulsive debut, Tilt is a primal scream of a novel about the disappointments and desires we all carry, and what each of us will do for the people we love. Emma Pattee is a climate journalist and a fiction writer living in Portland, Oregon. She's written about climate change for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and more. In 2021, she coined the term “Climate Shadow” to describe an individual's potential impact on climate change. Her fiction has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Idaho Review, New Orleans Review, Carve Magazine, Citron Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review. Recommended Books: KJ Charles, A Seditious Affair Danzy Senna, Colored Television Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection Rob Franklin, Great Black Hope Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Set over the course of a single day, an electrifying debut novel from “a powerful new literary voice” (Vogue) following one woman's journey across a transformed city, carrying the weight of her past and a fervent hope for the future. Last night, you and I were safe. Last night, in another universe, your father and I stood fighting in the kitchen. Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. With no way to reach her husband, no phone or money, and a city left in chaos, there's nothing to do but walk. Making her way across the wreckage of Portland, Annie experiences human desperation and kindness: strangers offering help, a riot at a grocery store, and an unlikely friendship with a young mother. As she walks, Annie reflects on her struggling marriage, her disappointing career, and her anxiety about having a baby. If she can just make it home, she's determined to change her life. A propulsive debut, Tilt is a primal scream of a novel about the disappointments and desires we all carry, and what each of us will do for the people we love. Emma Pattee is a climate journalist and a fiction writer living in Portland, Oregon. She's written about climate change for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and more. In 2021, she coined the term “Climate Shadow” to describe an individual's potential impact on climate change. Her fiction has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Idaho Review, New Orleans Review, Carve Magazine, Citron Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review. Recommended Books: KJ Charles, A Seditious Affair Danzy Senna, Colored Television Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection Rob Franklin, Great Black Hope Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Today on the I Am Dad Podcast, we are honored to welcome Acamea, a gifted memoirist, essayist, and author of the deeply moving memoir Daddy's Little Stranger. Through her work, Acamea masterfully explores the complex emotions of family, identity, and reconciliation, resonating with readers worldwide. Her essays have appeared in esteemed publications like the Bellevue Literary Review, North American Review, and Beyond Words Literary Magazine, and she's been featured by major media outlets such as the New York Post, Cosmopolitan, and Lit Hub. Acamea is also a TEDx speaker, offering profound insights on connection and personal growth. An Indiana native now residing in Nevada, Acamea holds an MFA from Randolph College, where she earned the distinction of being a Blackburn Fellow. Join us as we dive into her creative journey, her reflections on fatherhood and family, and the stories that continue to inspire her work.

Episode 493 - Phyllis Gobbell - PRODIGAL, a Southern novel that echoes an ancient Biblical storyPhyllis Gobbell's writing career spans four decades. Her history of publication includes both fiction and nonfiction, with a total of five novels and over thirty stories and articles in literary journals, anthologies, and magazines. One of her first stories appeared in the anthology, HomeWorks, in 1996, a collection of writings by Tennessee authors living at that time, including Alex Haley, Robert Penn Warren, and Peter Taylor.Gobbell, a Nashville author, writes a little bit of everything. Two true-crime books, An Unfinished Canvas (Berkley, 2007; Diversion 2020) and A Season of Darkness (Berkley, 2010), are accounts of high-profile, cold-case murders in Nashville. Now Gobbell authors the Jordan Mayfair Mystery Series: Pursuit in Provence (Five Star, 2015), Secrets and Shamrocks (Five Star, 2016), and Treachery in Tuscany (Encircle, 2018), winner of Killer Nashville's Silver Falchion Award for Best Cozy Mystery.Gobbell received the Tennessee Arts Commission's Individual Artist Award in Fiction. Other writing achievements include the Leslie Garrett Fiction Prize awarded by the Knoxville Writers Guild, Tennessee Writers Alliance Short Story First Place Award, and the North Carolina Writers' Workshop First Place Award in Creative Nonfiction. She received a Pushcart nomination for her story, “Primates,” which was published in Bellevue Literary Review. She won the Creative Nonfiction First Place Award from the Knoxville Writers' Guild for her essay, “In the Car with Mother on Christmas Eve.” Twice she has received the Leslie Garrett Award for Fiction.An active participant in the writing community, Gobbell helped organize the Tennessee Writers Alliance in 1990 and served on its Board of Directors for ten years, including two terms as president and one as chair of the Board. She was also a founding member of a writers group that still meets every Tuesday night, the Nashville Writers Alliance.For twenty years, Phyllis Gobbell served on the English faculty at Nashville State Community College as Associate Professor. She taught courses in composition, creative writing, and literature. She served as editor of the literary magazine, Tetrahedra, for eight years.Gobbell earned her B.S. in Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and received her M.A. in English from Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, where the graduate program offered a creative thesis option. Her thesis was a collection of stories entitled Listen to Me. Most of the stories have been published in literary journals and have received awards.https://phyllisgobbell.com/Support the show___https://livingthenextchapter.com/podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/Coffee Refills are always appreciated, refill Dave's cup here, and thanks!https://buymeacoffee.com/truemediaca

Ben Goldfab is an independent conservation journalist. He's the  author of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet, named one of the best books of 2023 by the New York Times, and Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, winner of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Ben's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Science, The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The Guardian, High Country News, Outside Magazine, Smithsonian, bioGraphic, Pacific Standard, Audubon Magazine, Scientific American, Vox, OnEarth, Yale Environment 360, Grantland, The Nation, Hakai Magazine, VICE News, and other publications.His fiction has appeared in publications including Motherboard, Moss, Bellevue Literary Review, and The Hopper, which nominated me for a Pushcart Prize. My non-fiction has been anthologized in The Best American Science & Nature Writing and Cosmic Outlaws: Coming of Age at the End of Nature. I live in Colorado with his wife, Elise, and his dog, Kit — which is, of course, what you call a baby beaver.In this episode, Mark and Ben speak about beavers and their importance in balancing the ecosystems in which they live, animal migration patterns and how humans have impacted these routes and much more.  To read some of Ben's works, see the links below:Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our PlanetEager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They MatterArticles Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣Produced: Emilie FirnEdited: Patrick Troll⁣Music: Whiskey Class⁣Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcastWebsite: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.comSupport wild salmon at evaswild.com

In this episode, Dr. Danielle Ofri, a renowned physician and author with extensive experience at Bellevue Hospital and NYU, delves into the critical issue of medical mistakes discussed in her latest book, When We Do Harm. She provides insights into her journey of understanding the prevalence of medical errors, the emotional toll on healthcare providers, and the importance of balancing professional duties with emotional well-being. Dr. Ofri also shares personal experiences and advocates for systemic changes and honest communication to improve patient safety and care.00:00 Introduction and Guest Introduction01:00 Discussing 'When We Do Harm'01:53 Understanding Medical Errors03:50 The Human Element in Medicine07:08 Personal Experiences with Medical Errors11:35 Emotional Impact and Coping17:43 Strategies for Improvement28:29 Final Thoughts and Recommendations

Welcome to the Inner Loop Radio in our latest segment of Just Checking where we bring you our sub-series by Leeya Mehta: Writers with Pets in Solariums. Amanda Newell lives on a farm in southern Maryland with a cat named Kit Kat and two horses, Eko and Ed. She's close enough to the Chesapeake to hear the waves breaking against the shore. She grew up riding and showing horses and still finds mucking stalls therapeutic. She also loves the other animals on the farm, including the foxes and deer, who sometimes dine together. Newell is the author of Postmortem Say, published in 2024 by Cervena Barva Press. Her chapbook, I Will Pass Even to Acheron, was a 2021 winner of the Rattle Chapbook Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Bellevue Literary Review, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships and/or scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Frost Place, and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, Amanda is currently an associate editor for the contemporary poetry journal Plume. She is currently working on a hybrid memoir about reconstructing her identity in the aftermath of the suicide of her ex-husband, a former prosecutor and judge. Her website is: www.amandanewellpoet.com

Hadley Leggett writes layered book club fiction exploring truth in shades of gray. Before becoming a novelist, her winding career path included degrees in medicine, biochemistry, Spanish, and science journalism, as well as a ten-year stint as a stay-at-home mom. She began writing fiction — her secret lifelong dream — when her youngest child started preschool and she finally got a moment to herself.Hadley's short stories and essays have appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Literary Mama, and Halfway Down the Stairs, and her science writing can be found at Wired.com and Stanford News. She lives in Seattle with her husband and three children, as well as her parents, three cats, and an ever-rotating troop of foster kittens. When she's not writing, you can find her swimming laps, poring over a jigsaw puzzle, or buying too many books.Learn more at: hadleyleggett.comIntro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro RecordingFollow the Writing Table:On Twitter/X: @writingtablepcEverywhere else: @writingtablepodcastEmail questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: writingtablepodcast@gmail.com.

On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Lena Crown interviews Richard Scott Larson.Richard Scott Larson is the author of  the memoir The Long Hallway  (UW Press). He has received fellowships from MacDowell and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and his creative and critical work has appeared in The Sun Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Harvard Review, and other journals and anthologies.Lena Crown is a book editor for us at Autofocus Books. Her essays are published or forthcoming in The Rumpus, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Narratively, North American Review, The Offing, and elsewhere, and her poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, The Boiler, Poet Lore, No Contact, and Variant Lit.____________Full conversation topics include:-- blocking out time to write-- doing residencies-- horror movies and mass-market fiction as a kid-- writing as a critic and with the NBCC-- the role of film in his life and the book-- a crisis of fiction-- memoir vs book-length essay-- the new memoir THE LONG HALLWAY-- gender, sexuality, and horror-- visibility and hiding queerness-- masks and Michael Myers in Halloween-- horror tropes appearing in memoir-- loneliness and observation-- film form-- fear and shame-- the Midwestern suburbs-- epiphany, revelation, and resolution (or lack of)-- examining our own cruelties-- writing about family-- the next book and gymnasts_______________Podcast theme music  by Mike Nagel, author of Duplex and Culdesac. Here's his music project: Yeah Yeah Cool Cool.The Lives of Writers is edited and produced by Michael Wheaton, author of Home Movies.

Chris Drew reads his short story, "Saturday Night at the Dairy Queen," published in our Spring 2024 issue. Chris Drew is an Associate Professor of English at Indiana State University, where he teaches creative writing and English teaching methods courses. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including Bellevue Literary Review, Quarterly West, Concho River Review, Mad River Review, The Sycamore Review, Red Wheelbarrow, and Big Muddy. When he's not teaching or writing, Chris likes to watch random streaming documentaries with his wife, play music at the local farmers market, let his daughter fill him in on the latest Taylor Swift news, and play Dungeons & Dragons online with his high school pals. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vita-poetica/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vita-poetica/support

Susan Ito is the author of the memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, published by the Ohio State University Press in November 2023. She co-edited the literary anthology A Ghost At Heart's Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption. Her work has appeared in The Writer, Growing Up Asian American, Choice, Hip Mama, Literary Mama, Catapult, Hyphen, The Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere.  Her theatrical adaption of Untold, stories of reproductive stigma, was produced at Brava Theater. She is a member of the Writers' Grotto, and teaches at the Mills College campus of Northeastern University. She was a co-organizer of Rooted and Written, a writing workshop for writers of color. I Would Meet You Anywhere by Susan Kiyo Ito. Use Discount  MAKINGOF  for 30% off.As mentioned by Susan in the episode: The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture Conference- April 4th-6th at Brown UniversityTo skip ahead to the interview go to timestamp: 17:15S12F Helping AdopteesGregory Luce and Adoptees Rights LawJoe Soll & other adoptee resourcesFireside Adoptees Facebook GroupReckoning with the Primal Wound DocumentaryUpdate: Although we are unable to attend Chicago's Foglift in May, here is the link for Early Bird tickets: Foglift Early Bird Link: Chicago: May 17th & 18thIf you want to support our show, visit our Patreon Page.Thank you to our Patreons! Join at the $10 level and be part of our monthly Zoom adoptee community.Our Patrons:  Laura Christensen, Barbara Frank, Ramona Evans, Linda Pevac, Blonde Records, Daphne Keys, Denise Hewitt, Michelle Styles, Emily Sinagra, Linda David, John Frey, Eric David, Beth Figuls, Ron Schneider, Tony Corsentino, Kristi Reed,  Kristen Steinhilber, Jane Bofenkamp, Kelley Brickfield, Sandra de Quesada, The Harpy, Kristan Higgin, Lisa Thompson,  Michelle Goodwine, Jesper Laursen, Julie Malone, Rivi Shocket , Robert Perrino,  Colleen McCall, Janet MacDonald, Robin Wells, Lynn Grubb, Mikki Jackson-Brown, Sharon Katzmann, Carol Levitt, Elizabeth McDonald, Diane Moore, Ann Mikeska, Darra Robins, A.M. Homes, Kelly Layton, Lynn Marie, Lynn Wood, Jeff Wadstrom & Karla.Support the showTo support the show - Patreon.

On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Lena Crown interviews Jehanne Dubrow.Jehanne Dubrow is the author of nine books of poems, including most recently, Wild Kingdom (Louisiana State University Press, 2021), and three books of creative nonfiction, throughsmoke: an essay in notes (New Rivers Press, 2019), Taste: A Book of Small Bites (Columbia University Press, 2022), and Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity (University of New Mexico Press, 2023).Lena Crown is a book editor for us at Autofocus Books. Her essays are published or forthcoming in The Rumpus, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Narratively, North American Review, The Offing, and elsewhere, and her poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, The Boiler, Poet Lore, No Contact, and Variant Lit.____________Full conversation topics include:-- writing routines and book juggling-- switching modes of writing/thinking-- teaching trauma writing-- starting as an encouraged visual artist-- Rothko-- writing young -- working on Taste: A Book of Small Bites and then Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity--  the research process for a braided essay-- rendering place and many different countries-- the "snapshots" and "galleries" in the book-- ekphrasis-- using the body and becoming a surface-- finding (and using) different forms-- the problem of beauty-- possession and dispossession-- discomfort-- fact and pathos-- organization and ordering-- flash/prose poem form-- her next book Civilians-- frivolity_______________Podcast theme music  by Mike Nagel, author of Duplex and Culdesac. Here's his music project: Yeah Yeah Cool Cool.The Lives of Writers is edited and produced by Michael Wheaton, author of Home Movies.Episode and show artwork by Amy Wheaton.

In this episode of the Thriving Authors Podcast, It was such a joy to talk with author Susan Ito, whose captivating memoir I Would Meet You Anywhere came out a few months ago. If you're curious about the differences between writing a memoir and writing fiction that is based loosely on real life, I think Susan's insights will be incredibly useful to you. She shared: The ways that her book evolved over the years, beginning as her MFA thesis. A comment comparing her to Frank McCourt that left her upset and indignant early on in her writing project. How she had to trick herself to keep writing her book. The benefit of working with a small academic publisher. When she knew it was finally time to release her book into the world. I loved hearing her share about what finally got her to commit to a deadline after decades of working on her book! If you need a plan and someone (me!) to guide you to unlock your AUTHORity, take the first step towards becoming a published author and register for Your Book Roadmap today. You'll have your first chapter D-O-N-E by the end of March! Find all the details HERE. About Susan: Susan Ito is the author of the memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, out from the Ohio State University Press in November 2023. She co-edited the literary anthology A Ghost At Heart's Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption. Her work has appeared in The Writer, Growing Up Asian American, Choice, Hip Mama, Literary Mama, Catapult, Hyphen,The Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere.  Her theatrical adaption of Untold, stories of reproductive stigma, was produced at Brava Theater. She is a member of the Writers' Grotto, and teaches at the Mills College campus of Northeastern University and Bay Path University. She is a co-organizer of Rooted and Written, a writing workshop for writers of color. Connect with her on Instagram @thesusanito. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dallas-woodburn/support

Gaetan Sgro is an internal medicine doctor, girl dad, and medical educator at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine where he co-directs a program in the medical humanities. He is the recipient of teaching awards including the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, the Golden Apple Teaching Award, and the Carl R. Fuhrman Clinical Educator of the Year Award. His writing has appeared in Rattle, The Bellevue Literary Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Hektoen International, The Healing Muse, Academic Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, the Best New Poets Anthology, and elsewhere. Find more at his website: https://www.gaetansgro.com/ Review the Rattlecast on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rattle-poetry/id1477377214 As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Move through an unnatural environment and describe it as though you were writing a nature poem. Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem that includes multiple lists. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

When Jan Steckel was a guest on The Leftscape back in April of 2019, she read from her book of poetry, Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press, 2018), which went on to win two Rainbow Awards. Her earlier poetry book, The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press, 2011), won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Jan Steckel's creative prose and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine, Bellevue Literary Review, Canary, Assaracus, and elsewhere. This time in our featured interview, the Oakland, California based writer is back to share from her new debut fiction collection, Ghosts and Oceans (Zeitgeist Press, 2023). In The Artscape, Wendy Sheridan asks Robin Renée about current gigs, DJing post-punk, stage fright, and other happenings on the creative front. In This Fortnight I Learned, they cover Kit Kat flavors, an ending and beginning for KISS, and Wendy's music streaming in Japan. All the News We Can Handle includes contention over the Zulu kingship, a Texas abortion case, activists working to stop severe anti-LGBTQ+ laws in Uganda, George Santos on Cameo, the Pantone color of the coming year, and a fosssil called Turtwig. This is the last show of the season! Stay tuned for reposts of some of our favorites, check us out on Patreon, and catch us on social media @leftscape. Have a beautiful holiday season and a great start to 2024. We'll see you soon! Leftscape Love, Robin and Wendy   Things to do: Read Ghosts and Oceans by Jan Steckel. https://www.zeitgeist-press.com/index.php/product/ghosts-and-oceans/ Ghosts and Oceans on Amazon See Robin Renée's live performance on Friday, December 15th, 7-9pm with Sharief & Friends at Mr. Pi's, 247 Raritan Ave, Highland Park, NJ. Stream music by Wendy Sheridan's band, Music for the Goddess: Listen to DJ Andrew Genus / Robin Renée on Mixcloud. See Turtwig!

Susan Ito began reading at the age of three, and writing stories at the age six. She co-edited the literary anthology A Ghost At Heart's Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption. Her work has appeared in The Writer, Growing Up Asian American, Choice, Hip Mama, Literary Mama, Catapult, Hyphen,The Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is a MacDowell colony Fellow, and has also been awarded residencies at The Mesa Refuge, Hedgebrook and the Blue Mountain Center. She has performed her solo show, The Ice Cream Gene, around the US. Her theatrical adaption of Untold, stories of reproductive stigma, was produced at Brava Theater She is a member of the Writers' Grotto, and teaches at Mills College/Northeastern University and Bay Path University. She was one of the co-organizers of Rooted and Written, a no-fee writing workshop for writers of color. She lives in Northern California.Website: https://www.thesusanito.com/bioMusic by Corey Quinn

Join our Three-Day Workshop, Making & Breaking Status Quo with Anne Elliott, June 13-15, 2023. Tickets are $49 and include daily classes, daily workshops, a live Q&A, and first pages panel--all with replays, on-demand access, and 30 days to view. This podcast episode is a workshop preview for the three days together. Get your ticket here: https://manuscriptacademy.com/product/making-and-breaking-status-quo What you do with the "ordinary" in your story--and how you break it--creates the extraordinary reading experience. You've heard that agents want characters with power and agency (it's some of our top-requested keywords on #MSWL!), but how do you give them power or--even better--teach them to take it? How do you bring a quiet character the courage to speak up? How do you show the ripple effects when they finally do? What hidden consequences come with taking risks, seeking safety, and finding intimacy between your characters? All of these questions make for compelling fiction that explores that human elements AI just can't touch. There so are many things we love about Anne. Her ability to zero in on fiction in a way that feels like an MFA in your computer is among our favorites. Hope you can join us. Anne Elliott is the author of The Artstars: Stories (Indiana University Press) and The Beginning of the End of the Beginning (Ploughshares Solos). Her short fiction can be found in Story, A Public Space, Crab Orchard Review, Witness, Hobart, Bellevue Literary Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, and elsewhere. Elliott is a veteran of the New York spoken word circuit, with stage credits including The Whitney Museum, Lincoln Center, PS122, and Woodstock '94. Her fiction has been awarded support from The Story Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, The Normal School, Table 4 Writer's Foundation, and The Bridport Prize. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Warren Wilson College, and lives in Portland, Maine. Learn more at http://www.anneelliottstories.com.

Anne Elliott is back for her second three-day event! Join us June 13-15 for daily classes, workshops, exercises, Q&A, a live feedback panel, and a supportive writer community as we learn about making and breaking the status quo in your work. Get your ticket here: https://manuscriptacademy.com/anne-workshop ($0 members | $49 nonmembers). What makes this day different from all other days? This course will explore that question from several angles. A break in status quo is often the occasion for story—or the vital climax. How and why do we establish the ordinary for our characters, and how can the ordinary be broken open to reveal new depths of personality, relationships, motivations, and worlds? Through concrete and unpacked examples and exercises, we will add a few key tools to the craft toolbox. This course can be completed on your schedule. Everything will be up for 30 days, replays are available for all events, and your odds of feedback are the same whether you attend live or watch the replay. Anne Elliott is the author of The Artstars: Stories (Indiana University Press) and The Beginning of the End of the Beginning (Ploughshares Solos). Her short fiction can be found in Story, A Public Space, Crab Orchard Review, Witness, Hobart, Bellevue Literary Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, and elsewhere. Elliott is a veteran of the New York spoken word circuit, with stage credits including The Whitney Museum, Lincoln Center, PS122, and Woodstock '94. Her fiction has been awarded support from The Story Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, The Normal School, Table 4 Writer's Foundation, and The Bridport Prize. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Warren Wilson College, and lives in Portland, Maine. Learn more at http://www.anneelliottstories.com.

Danielle Ofri MD, PhD is one of the foremost voices in the medical world today.  She's a primary care internist at Bellevue Hospital and clinical professor of medicine at NYU, as well as founder/editor-in-chief of Bellevue Literary Review, and her writing appears in The New Yorker, the New York Times, as well as in The Lancet, and NEJM. She's given several TED talks and performed at The Moth. Ofri is the author of six books about life in medicine; her latest is “When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error.”  www.danielleofri.com _______________________________________________________ Become a JOWMA Member! www.jowma.org  Follow us on Instagram! www.instagram.com/JOWMA_org  Follow us on Twitter! www.twitter.com/JOWMA_med  Follow us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/JOWMAorg/ Stay up-to-date with JOWMA news! Sign up for the JOWMA newsletter! https://jowma.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9b4e9beb287874f9dc7f80289&id=ea3ef44644&mc_cid=dfb442d2a7&mc_eid=e9eee6e41e

Ronna Wineberg: Artifacts and Other Stories. This is episode 556 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Ronna Wineberg is an award-winning author of four books, including her newest one, Artifacts and Other Stories, a collection of short stories which is our focus today. Her latest book was long-listed for the Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition and was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Over the past three decades, her writings have received recognition that includes being a finalist for Bread Loaf Writers Conference Fellowship, a finalist for Moment Magazine Short Fiction Contest, winner of New River Press Many Voices Project Literary Competition, finalist for the Willa Cather Prize in Fiction, and a prize-winner in the Denver Women's Press Club Story Contest. She is the founding fiction editor of Bellevue Literary Review, where she served 21 years as its senior fiction editor, and now is their contributing fiction editor. The publication is credited with publishing the early works of Celeste Ng, who went on to become a New York Times best-selling author. Wineberg has also served as the president of Tennessee Writers Alliance and was a member of the program committee for Southern Festival of Books. Wineberg was awarded a prestigious Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, A Residency from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, a Residency from Ragdale Foundation, and a Scholarship in Fiction from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Michigan Quarterly Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Writers Forum, The South Dakota Review, American Way, Colorado Review, Jewish Women's Literary Annual, and Eureka Literary Magazine. Wineberg is a dynamic guest-speaker and has presented at many conferences like the AWP Conference, Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, PEN and BRUSH Writing Conference, and many others.  She taught a total of five years, including creative writing at University School of Nashville Evening Classes for Adults, and as an Adjunct Professor in English at New York University. Wineberg was a legal aid lawyer, public defender, and a lawyer in private practice earlier in her career. She earned a JD from University of Denver College of Law and a BA with distinction from the University of Michigan. She has lived in Nashville and Denver, and resides in New York City. For more information, please consult: www.ronnawineberg.com.  Awesome read! Awesome talk! So much to learn! Before you go... Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on, and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be Awesome. Thanks! If you are listening on Apple Podcasts on your phone, go to the logo - click so that you are on the main page with a listing of the episodes for my podcast and scroll to the bottom. There you will see a place to rate and review. Could you review me? That would be so cool. Thank you! Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? That would so awesome! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: www.ronnawineberg.com https://mobile.twitter.com/Ronnawineberg Length - 28:38

Madeline Haze Curtis's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review, Copper Nickel, West Branch, and The Forge Literary Magazine, among other publications. She received the Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts and was nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize. She holds a BA from Stanford University and is currently an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Madeline Haze Curtis's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review, Copper Nickel, West Branch, and The Forge Literary Magazine, among other publications. She received the Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts and was nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize. She holds a BA from Stanford University and is currently an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Sonia Greenfield (she/they) is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: All Possible Histories, released in December 2022 with Riot in Your Throat; Letdown, released in March 2020, selected for the Marie Alexander Series, and published by White Pine Press, and Boy With a Halo at the Farmer's Market, which won the 2014 Codhill Poetry Prize and was published in 2015. Her chapbook, Helen of Troy is High AF will be out with Harbor Editions in January 2023, and American Parable, won the 2017 Autumn House Press chapbook prize. Her work has appeared in a variety of places, including in the 2018 and 2010 Best American Poetry, Antioch Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Los Angeles Review, Massachusetts Review, and Willow Springs. She lives with her family in Minneapolis where she teaches at Normandale College, edits the Rise Up Review, and advocates for neurodiversity and the decentering of the cis/het white hegemony. Find much more here: https://www.soniagreenfield.com/ As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Think about a time in your life when you felt like you lost yourself. What were the circumstances? Use as much detail as possible. How did you find yourself again? Write for 10 minutes. Next, type into a search bar: “If you don't” and then just one more letter (for example, "If you don't r".) How does the search engine think you might want to finish the sentence? Choose one of these as the first line of your poem. How can you tie the ideas together? Maybe you can incorporate a few of them into your poem? Next Week's Prompt: Go to a newspaper of your choice. Find a headline you find completely uninteresting. Read the entire article and let your mind wander. Write a poem about where it went. Title it with a phrase from the article. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

New York's Bellevue Hospital is the oldest public hospital in the country, serving patients from all walks of life. It's also the home of a literary magazine, the Bellevue Literary Review, which is now more than 20 years old. In today's encore episode, NPR arts correspondent Neda Ulaby tells Emily how one doctor at Bellevue Hospital decided a literary magazine is essential to both science and healing. As always, you can reach the show by emailing ShortWave@NPR.org.

About Ben Ben Goldfarb (@ben_a_goldfarb) is an award-winning environmental writer whose journalism has appeared in Mother Jones, Science, The Guardian, Orion Magazine, High Country News, Outside, Audubon Magazine, Pacific Standard, Hakai Magazine, VICE News, Yale Environment 360, and many other publications. His fiction has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Motherboard, and The Hopper. He […] Read full article: Episode 97: On Re-watering The West With Beavers And Decommissioning Forest Service Roads With Ben Goldfarb

As one of the most prolific and acclaimed physician writers today, Dr. Danielle Ofri is the author of seven books on the intricacies of modern medical practice and the doctor-patient relationship. Her other writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, in addition to various leading medical journals. She is also the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review, a literary journal that publishes works focusing on the human body, illness, and health. In her writings, Dr. Ofri uses vivid narratives to shed light on the highs and lows of being a doctor. In this episode, she joins us to share her path to medicine, how doctors can mitigate the moral injury they experience in their work, and how storytelling can comfort us in times of suffering.In this episode, you will hear about:How Dr. Ofri was initially drawn to internal medicine through the patient stories she encountered - 1:54A discussion of the tension between the business and art of medicine - 6:07Dr. Ofri's advice on how clinicians can combat the moral corrosion that broken medical systems can induce - 11:29How Dr. Ofri's medical residency during the AIDS epidemic led to her passion for writing - 16:33Dr. Ofri's writing process - 23:30A discussion of the moral philosophy of medicine and why doctors do what they do - 27:09Dr. Ofri reflections on how her writing has impacted her clinical practice - 31:47The wisdom that physicians who encounter suffering every day can share with a world experiencing collective grief from the COVID-19 pandemic - 34:38A discussion of the emotional toll on clinicians of delivering bad news and confronting grief, and an exploration of guilt and shame - 42:25Dr. Ofri's advice to clinicians on how to stay connected to meaning in medicine - 48:44Dr. Danielle Ofri is the author of the following books on being a doctor:Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at BellevueWhat Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of MedicineWhen We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical ErrorWhat Patients Say, What Doctors HearMedicine in TranslationIntensive Care: A Doctor's JourneyIncidental FindingsFollow Dr. Ofri on Twitter @DanielleOfri.This episode included an excerpt from Jacqueline du Pré and Daniel Barenboim's performance of the Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99 by Johannes Brahms, recorded live in West Berlin in 1968.Visit our website www.TheDoctorsArt.com where you can find transcripts of all episodes.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review our show, available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you know of a doctor, patient, or anyone working in health care who would love to explore meaning in medicine with us on the show, feel free to leave a suggestion in the comments or send an email to info@thedoctorsart.com.Copyright The Doctor's Art Podcast 2022

On this episode of Searching for Medicine's Soul, Aaron Rothstein is joined by Danielle Ofri, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine and founder of the Bellevue Literary Review. The two discuss Ofri's work chronicling the challenges to the relationship between doctor and patient: administrative creep in the medical field, nonprofit hospital (mis)behavior, and the application of the adversarial patient compensation system to unintended medical errors. See also: Danielle's website When We Do Harm, Danielle's latest book The Bellevue Literary Review  

"'Doctor, it's taken so long to get this appointment with you!' This is the opening line of so many medical visits, and I find myself constantly apologizing to my patients on behalf of our system. After the pandemic-induced lull in routine medical care, we're right back where we started—doctors booked for months, patients struggling to get appointments. The difficulty with access to medical care is endemic to our entire medical system. Even before the pandemic, less than a fifth of American doctors were able to take new patients, and more than 80 percent were at capacity or over-extended. Some 16,000 medical practices closed down because of the pandemic. This is especially concerning in primary care, which is on track for a shortage of up to 48,000 physicians. It's not surprising that lack of access to primary care doctors is associated with higher mortality." Danielle Ofri is an internal medicine physician and editor-in-chief, Bellevue Literary Review, and is the author of When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error. She shares her story and discusses her KevinMD article, "Getting an appointment with primary care is the Achilles' heel of medicine." Did you enjoy today's episode? Rate and review the show so more audiences can find The Podcast by KevinMD. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to get notified when a new episode comes out. Click here to earn 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CME for this episode. Also available in Category 1 CME bundles. Powered by CMEfy - a seamless way for busy clinician learners to discover Internet Point-of-Care Learning opportunities that reward AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Learn more at about.cmefy.com/cme-info

The #LatinoBookStore #TAS Texas Author Series every first Friday features a lineup cultivated by Mouthfeel Press (MFP). As a preview, Tony Diaz features several of the talented artists of Mouthfeel Press including: Liliana Valenzuela is the author of the poetry collections Codex of Love: Bendita ternura (FlowerSong Press, 2020) and Codex of Journeys: Bendito camino (Mouthfeel Press, 2013). Her poetry and essays have been widely anthologized, most recently in Latinas: An Anthology of Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA. Valenzuela is also the acclaimed Spanish language translator of works by Cristina García, Julia Alvarez, Denise Chávez, and many other writers. Her most recent translation is Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo, by Sandra Cisneros. And this fall, Vintage Español will publish her translation of Sandra Cisneros' new poetry collection, Woman Without Shame/Mujer sin vergüenza. A CantoMundo and Macondo fellow, she collaborates with the Hablemos, escritoras podcast. Valenzuela is currently the editor of the Latin American Journalism Review at the University of Texas at Austin. Maria Miranda Maloney is a Latina poet, editor, and bilingual publisher. She was born in El Paso, Texas, and raised in a small farm community of mostly immigrant families. Her family's outings consisted of crossing the U.S-Mexico border every Sunday to visit family in Zaragoza, a town outside Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. She learned to navigate two different worlds, including language and traditions. Maria is the founder of Mouthfeel Press a bilingual press that has published dozens of books of poetry in English and Spanish, and the author of Cracked Spaces (Pandora Lobo, 2021), The Lost Letters of Mileva (Pandora Lobo Productions Press, 2014) and The City I Love (Ranchos Press, 2011). Her poetry and essays have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, MiPoesias, The Catholic Reporter, The Texas Review, Acentos Review, and other literary and international journals. She is the literary curator and Outreach Coordinator for The Smithsonian Latino Center, Washington D.C., and curator for the Wise Latina International's Writing Ourselves into History. Maria is editor for Arte Público Press, and a BorderSenses board member. She is currently a reading and writing teacher in East Texas. Her next book The Moon in Her Eyes is scheduled for release in 2023. She's currently working on her manuscript When We Were Sisters. Carolina Monsiváis is the author of Somewhere Between Houston and El Paso, Elisa's Hunger, and Descent. A dedicated advocate in the field of domestic violence and sexual assault, she has worked with survivors in Texas, New Mexico and Juárez. She earned degrees from the University of Houston (B.A) and New Mexico State University Vincent "Chente" Cooper is a writer and previous US Marine living in San Antonio. His productions in collections incorporate Boundless, Refreshing San Antonio, Ban This: An Anthology of Chicano Literaturek, and Big Bridge Magazine: Refreshing San Antonio. His chapbook, Where the Reckless Ones Come was distributed by Aztlan Libre Press. "Zarzamora' his latest work has been described as poetry of survival and recounts through prose expereiences along one of San Antonio Texas' throughfares. Lastly, he is a member of The Macondo Writer's Workshop. His poems can be found in Huizache and Riversedge. He currently resides in the westside of San Antonio, TX. www.Librotraficante.com www.NuestraPalabra.org www.TonyDiaz.net

Carly Nugent lives in Bright, Victoria. Her short fiction has featured in numerous publications, including the Bellevue Literary Review and Award Winning Australian Writing. Her first novel, The Peacock Detectives, won the Readings Children's Book Prize, was a CBCA younger readers Honour Book, and was shortlisted for the Text Prize, the Australian Book Design Awards and the Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards. But today we are discussing Sugar, her first novel for young adults. Our interview begins at  00:16:15 Caitlin recommends: All My Mothers by Joanna Glen A sweeping familial drama exploring all the motherhood relationships a woman experiences throughout her life.  *Caitlin received a PR copy through her role at Harper Collins Australia. Michelle recommends: The Long Drop by Denise Mina A fascinating blend of fact and fiction imagining lost hours in the life of Glasgow serial killer Peter Manuel. In this interview, we chat about: How Carly's experience with Type 1 Diabetes inspired Persephone's story The way language and numbers help tell the story in a unique way including in the opening pages Why Carly decided to include some difficult and traumatic moments in Persephone's story, rather than just exploring how she lives with Diabetes How Carly felt writing for an older audience after her debut middle grade novel, The Peacock Detectives The journey to publication, including a special Text Publishing signing Books and other things mentioned: Redhanded episode https://podfollow.com/1250599915/episode/78b11e9b022f0f7bafc3f0670db197fe1c174c40/view (230: Peter Manuel: The Beast of Birkinshaw) All Killa No Filla episode https://podfollow.com/937224870/episode/9f957da234009c4381969a17794f518cf9cba6fa/view (80: Peter Manuel) The Babysitter's Club Something Rhymes With Purple (podcast) Vikki Wakefield's writing (all brilliant) Sick Bay by Nova Weetman  Follow Carly https://www.instagram.com/carly_nugent/?hl=en-gb (@carly_nugent) Sugar is available now. Thanks to Text Publishing for sending us copies of the book in preparation for the interview. Connect with us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterwordspod/ (@betterwordspod)

Planet Poet-Words in Space  – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my December 21st, 2021 WIOX show for my conversation with poet Elizabeth J. Coleman and photographerMichael Craig Palmer on their beautiful new book, Experiencing Autumn, and their unusual and imaginative collaboration.   Elizabeth J. Coleman is the editor of HERE: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), with a foreword from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. She is the author of two poetry collections, published by Spuyten Duyvil Press (PROOF and THE FIFTH GENERATION), and translated Lee Slonimsky's sonnet collection PYTHAGORE, AMOUREUX into French (Folded Word Press, 2016). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Colorado Review, Rattle, and Bellevue Literary Review, and in a number of anthologies.  Elizabeth's website is www.elizabethjcoleman.com.  Michael Craig Palmer is a photographer who has explored the architectural legacy of the German Jewish exodus from Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, he was unable to continue with architectural projects. Luckily, in September 2020, he was invited to join the Hudson Valley camera excursions hosted by the noted photographer Jade Doskow of Peekskill, New York. Over the three months of autumn 2020, Michael photographed the vibrant and changing fall colors up and down the Hudson. In the snow and cold of January and February, he assembled these pictures into the statement of 

Melissa J. Varnavas is a poet, journalist, and editor living in Beverly, Massachusetts. A graduate of the Solstice MFA program at Pine Manor College, her work has appeared in the literary journals in Bellevue Literary Review, Oberon, End Times, Blast Furnace, Margie, The New Guard, and elsewhere.www.reacharts.orgOriginal music: Calm Before by Larry Power (guitar) & Jack Kelly (harmonica)Editing by Lajla Dale

#PodcastersForJustice Critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling novelist, Stephanie Wrobel, spoke to me about her humble beginnings as a copywriter, turning her thesis into a bestseller, and the process of writing This Might Hurt. Stephanie is the author of Darling Rose Gold, an instant bestseller of 2020 that received rave reviews, and was nominated for multiple awards, including the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Her follow-up is This Might Hurt, described as "...a dark, thrilling novel about two sisters—one trapped in the clutches of a cult, the other in a web of her own lies." New York Times bestselling author of The Push, Ashley Audrain said of the book, "... [a gripping] clever exploration of fear and vulnerability right until the flawless ending—one you'll most certainly want to talk about.” Stephanie has an MFA from Emerson College and has had short fiction published in the Bellevue Literary Review. Stay calm and write on ... [Discover The Writer Files Extra: Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox at writerfiles.fm] [If you're a fan of The Writer Files, please click FOLLOW to automatically see new interviews. And drop us a rating or a review wherever you listen] In this file Stephanie Wrobel and I discussed: The challenges of writing "the second novel" Researching real-life cults  How she writes a chapter-a-day instead of using word counts Why she loathes the idea of standing desks How to rediscover your love of writing  And a lot more! Show Notes: StephanieWrobel.com This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel (Amazon Affiliate) An author-curated playlist inspired by Stephanie Wrobel's This Might Hurt - Spotify Stephanie Wrobel on Twitter (@stephwrobel) Stephanie Wrobel on Instagram (@stephaniewrobel) Stephanie Wrobel on Facebook Kelton Reid on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Midge Raymond is the author of the novel My Last Continent and the award-winning short-story collection Forgetting English. Her writing has appeared in TriQuarterly, American Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Review, the Los Angeles Times magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Poets & Writers, and many other publications.Midge worked in publishing in New York before moving to Boston, where she taught communication writing at Boston University for six years. She has taught creative writing at Boston's Grub Street Writers, Seattle's Richard Hugo House, and San Diego Writers, Ink. She has also published two books for writers, Everyday Writing and Everyday Book Marketing.Midge lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she is co-founder of the boutique publisher Ashland Creek Press.Ashland Creek Press is a vegan-owned boutique publisher dedicated to publishing books with a world view. Co-founders Midge and John are passionate about the environment, animal protection, ecology, and wildlife, and their goal is to publish books that combine these themes with compelling stories.The latest release from Ashland Creek Press is the fantastic 'My Days of Dark Green Euphoria by A.E. CopenhaverWinner of the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature, this satirical novel follows thirtysomething Cara Foster, “a provocative and delightful presence” (Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat). Cara is, one might say, eco-anxious—perhaps even eco-neurotic. She eats out of dumpsters (not because she wants to but because it's the right thing to do), does laundry as seldom as possible, takes navy showers every couple of days, and is reevaluating her boyfriend for killing a spider. Cara has never met her six (soon to be seven) nephews and nieces because she doesn't fly domestic (unless it's an emergency) or international (ever). She longs for a carbon footprint so light you'd hardly know she exists.“From the very start, this novel is captivating and takes you places you don't see coming. The 30-something female hero is unlike anyone else you've met in fiction, and the darkly hilarious story is ultimately enlightening.” — Robin Raven, author of The Kindness Workbook“Awareness of ecocide, environmental devastation, and animal suffering might not seem the likely content for a madcap adventure. That was before My Days of Dark Green Euphoria.” — Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of MeatYou can pick up a copy of the novel at Ashland Creek Press or you can order through your local book retailer. The music in this episode was provided by Calm. You can hear the full album and purchase a digital copy hereThis episode is brought to you by VEG 1.VEG 1 is the nutritional vitamin and mineral supplement designed for vegans, by vegans. Launched back in 2005 and re-branded in 2021 with stunning plastic-free packaging, VEG 1 provides nutritional support alongside a healthy and balanced vegan diet, all for an affordable price. With a 6-month supply available for just £12.70, VEG 1 will cost you little over £2 per month, and offer EU nutrient reference values (NRVs) of vitamins B12, D3, iodine, selenium, B2, B6 and folic acid.VEG 1 is:ChewableAffordable and reliableDesigned to be taken once dailyAvailable in orange and blackcurrant flavoursEasy and convenientCompletely plastic-freeYou can find out more about VEG 1 by clicking hereYou can find out more about The Bloody Vegans Podcast & support the show here See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amanda Newell won the 2021 Rattle Chapbook Prize for I Will Pass Even to Acheron. Her poetry has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Gargoyle, Plume, Scoundrel Time, and elsewhere. A graduate of Warren Wilson's MFA Program, she has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and The Frost Place, and a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her first full-length collection, Postmortem Say, is forthcoming in 2023 from Červená Barva Press. For more, visit: https://www.amandanewellpoet.com As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a poem about a moment of 2021 you'll never forget. Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem about a place you've always wanted to visit. Be as specific as you can (i.e., the Louvre rather than just Paris, France.) The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

Today I talked to Dina Greenberg about her new novel Nermina's Chance (Atmosphere Press, 2021). Nermina is a medical student in Sarajevo. She's been raised in an educated family of Westernized, secular Muslims, but it's 1992 and the Serbian Chetniks have started to destroy the city. Her mother and brother are murdered and Nermina is brutally raped. She manages to bribe her way out of Bosnia, flees with an orphaned five-year-old whom she leaves with relatives, and ultimately ends up in Portland, Oregon. She starts to rebuild her life and resolves to bring her own child into the world, but she's twenty-four and can't afford a medically induced pregnancy. So, she entices a ‘sperm donor' who has no idea of her intentions. Through pregnancy and the first sixteen years of her daughter's life, Nermina completes her degrees and begins counseling traumatized combat veterans. One of them turns out to be the brother of Nermina's unknowing sperm donor. Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and The Millions, Dina Greenberg's poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have appeared widely in such journals as Bellevue Literary Review, Pembroke Magazine, Split Rock Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Barely South, and Wilderness House Literary Review. Dina earned an MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she served as managing editor for the literary journal Chautauqua. She teaches creative writing at the Cameron Art Museum and provides one-on-one writing coaching for victims of trauma. Her work leading creative writing workshops for combat veterans resulted in Nermina's Chance. When she's not writing, teaching, or reading, Dina loves to work transforming a previously litter-strewn median into what she and a group of neighbors hope will be a city oasis. She also loves iPhone photography, building things (think DIY compost tumbler, raised garden beds, etc.), and power walking on Wilmington, NC's Riverwalk. G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com) if you wish to recommend an author (of a beautifully-written new novel) to interview, to listen to her previous podcast interviews, to read her mystery book reviews, or to check out some of her awesome recipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Today I talked to Dina Greenberg about her new novel Nermina's Chance (Atmosphere Press, 2021). Nermina is a medical student in Sarajevo. She's been raised in an educated family of Westernized, secular Muslims, but it's 1992 and the Serbian Chetniks have started to destroy the city. Her mother and brother are murdered and Nermina is brutally raped. She manages to bribe her way out of Bosnia, flees with an orphaned five-year-old whom she leaves with relatives, and ultimately ends up in Portland, Oregon. She starts to rebuild her life and resolves to bring her own child into the world, but she's twenty-four and can't afford a medically induced pregnancy. So, she entices a ‘sperm donor' who has no idea of her intentions. Through pregnancy and the first sixteen years of her daughter's life, Nermina completes her degrees and begins counseling traumatized combat veterans. One of them turns out to be the brother of Nermina's unknowing sperm donor. Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and The Millions, Dina Greenberg's poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have appeared widely in such journals as Bellevue Literary Review, Pembroke Magazine, Split Rock Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Barely South, and Wilderness House Literary Review. Dina earned an MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she served as managing editor for the literary journal Chautauqua. She teaches creative writing at the Cameron Art Museum and provides one-on-one writing coaching for victims of trauma. Her work leading creative writing workshops for combat veterans resulted in Nermina's Chance. When she's not writing, teaching, or reading, Dina loves to work transforming a previously litter-strewn median into what she and a group of neighbors hope will be a city oasis. She also loves iPhone photography, building things (think DIY compost tumbler, raised garden beds, etc.), and power walking on Wilmington, NC's Riverwalk. G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com) if you wish to recommend an author (of a beautifully-written new novel) to interview, to listen to her previous podcast interviews, to read her mystery book reviews, or to check out some of her awesome recipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Today I talked to Dina Greenberg about her new novel Nermina's Chance (Atmosphere Press, 2021). Nermina is a medical student in Sarajevo. She's been raised in an educated family of Westernized, secular Muslims, but it's 1992 and the Serbian Chetniks have started to destroy the city. Her mother and brother are murdered and Nermina is brutally raped. She manages to bribe her way out of Bosnia, flees with an orphaned five-year-old whom she leaves with relatives, and ultimately ends up in Portland, Oregon. She starts to rebuild her life and resolves to bring her own child into the world, but she's twenty-four and can't afford a medically induced pregnancy. So, she entices a ‘sperm donor' who has no idea of her intentions. Through pregnancy and the first sixteen years of her daughter's life, Nermina completes her degrees and begins counseling traumatized combat veterans. One of them turns out to be the brother of Nermina's unknowing sperm donor. Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and The Millions, Dina Greenberg's poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have appeared widely in such journals as Bellevue Literary Review, Pembroke Magazine, Split Rock Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Barely South, and Wilderness House Literary Review. Dina earned an MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she served as managing editor for the literary journal Chautauqua. She teaches creative writing at the Cameron Art Museum and provides one-on-one writing coaching for victims of trauma. Her work leading creative writing workshops for combat veterans resulted in Nermina's Chance. When she's not writing, teaching, or reading, Dina loves to work transforming a previously litter-strewn median into what she and a group of neighbors hope will be a city oasis. She also loves iPhone photography, building things (think DIY compost tumbler, raised garden beds, etc.), and power walking on Wilmington, NC's Riverwalk. G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com) if you wish to recommend an author (of a beautifully-written new novel) to interview, to listen to her previous podcast interviews, to read her mystery book reviews, or to check out some of her awesome recipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/historical-fiction

New York's Bellevue Hospital is the oldest public hospital in the country, serving patients from all walks of life. It's also the home of a literary magazine, the Bellevue Literary Review, which turns 20 this year. Today on the show, NPR's arts reporter Neda Ulaby tells Emily how one doctor at Bellevue Hospital decided a literary magazine is essential to both science and healing. You can follow Emily on Twitter @EmilyKwong1234 and Neda @UlaBeast. As always, email Short Wave at ShortWave@NPR.org.

Join Chibbi and Raqui as they meet, talk poetry, and shoot the sh*t with the phenomenal Seema Reza. Seema Reza is a poet and essayist and the author of the poetry collection A Constellation of Half-Lives (Write Bloody Publishing) and the memoir When the World Breaks Open (Red Hen Press). Based outside of Washington DC she is the CEO of Community Building Art Works, an arts organization that encourages the use of the arts as a tool for narration, self-care and socialization among a military population struggling with emotional and physical injuries. In 2015 she was awarded the Col John Gioia Patriot Award by USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore for her work with service members. An alumnus of Goddard College and VONA, her writing has appeared on-line and in print in Bellevue Literary Review, Green Mountain Review, The Washington Post, The LA Review of Books, The Feminist Wire, HerKind, The Offing, and Entropy among others.

Planet Poet-Words in Space  – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my September 29, 2020 conversation with poet and novelist Lee Slonimsky and essayist and teacher Peter Bricklebank.  Lee, my special co-host, invited Peter to read and discuss his remarkable essay on moths, Virginia Woolf and much, much more - -“An Eclipse of One's Own.”    Peter Bricklebank has published in The American Voice, Carolina Quarterly, Mid-American Review, Kansas Quarterly, Confrontation, Fiction, The New York Times Book Review and The Chicago Tribune, et al. His chapter on essay/memoir appears in The Portable MFA. He has taught at New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, and elsewhere, including a year as Nonfiction writer-in-residence at Central Connecticut State University and at Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv. Pandemics permitting, he co-teaches a winter workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico. He currently teaches in the online graduate program of National University and at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center. His work is forthcoming in The Bellevue Literary Review. Lee Slonimsky is a poet, novelist, and financial manager. His latest books of poems are the bilingual Greek/English translation of sonnet sequence Pythagoras in Love from Enipnio Press, translated by Greek National Poetry Prize winner Stamatis Polenakis and published this past May, and Tibbetts Brook Park, 1953, Spuyten Duyvil Press (2019).  His novel, thriller Bermuda Gold, uses the hedge fund industry as background.  Lee collaborated with his wife, Hammett and Mary Higgins Clark Award winner Carol Goodman, on the Black Swan Rising trilogy under the pseudonym Lee Carroll.   Lee's hedge fund, Ocean Partners LP, takes a special interest in the humane treatment of animals.  Lee taught at The City College of New York and the University of Pennsylvania among others.  Thanks so much for listening.

Charlie and Midge Raymond (Forgetting English; My Last Continent) discuss the current situation in Antarctica and the balance of keeping it clean whilst allowing research and tourism, environmental and climate changes in the same location, and being followed to the toilet by a penguin. Some podcast apps do not show description links properly unless the listener subscribes to the podcast. If you can't click the links below and don't wish to subscribe, copy and paste the following address into your browser to access the episode's page on my blog: http://wormhole.carnelianvalley.com/podcast/episode-22-midge-raymond Amongst other places, Midge's fiction has appeared in TriQuarterly, American Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Review, the Los Angeles Times magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and Poets & WritersMidge's blog Ashland Creek Press The Siskiyou Prize Information on John Yunker's The Tourist Trail Information on Three Ways To Disappear by Katy Yocom The Center for Ecosystem Sentinels and their mailing list Question Index 00:50 You have a background in publishing? 01:48 What genres did you work on? 02:54 Tell us about Ashland Creek Press 06:11 You have published a couple of books on writing?... 14:39 You have lots of locations and languages in Forgetting English: are you a big traveller? 16:26 What is it about travel and life choices that got to you in terms of your short stories? 18:08 Was there a particular reason for situating the last story at the end? 27:38 Have you been to Antarctica? 30:44 How do people balance visiting and research in Antarctica with the fact that it is causing damage? 33:05 The health and lives of penguins – are we looking at something we can change, going forwards? 34:55 How did the lifestyle of birds, penguins, influence the way you constructed Deb and Keller's relationship? 38:07 Tell us about the roles of Kate and Richard in the book 39:51 Keller has experienced a lot of losses- where did he come from? 42:11 What's next? 43:23 If you could, would you have a penguin as a pet? Purchase Links Everyday Writing: Amazon UK Amazon US Amazon Canada Waterstones Barnes & Noble IndieBound Indigo Chapters Everyday Book Marketing: Amazon UK Amazon US Amazon Canada Waterstones Barnes & Noble IndieBound Indigo Chapters Forgetting English: Amazon UK Amazon US Amazon Canada Waterstones Barnes & Noble IndieBound Indigo Chapters My Last Continent: Amazon UK Amazon US Amazon Canada Waterstones Barnes & Noble IndieBound Indigo Chapters I am an Amazon Associate and earn a small commission on qualifying purchases.  Likewise IndieBound. Photograph used with permission from the author.  

Nursing ErrorsGuest: Danielle Ofri, attending physician at Bellevue Hospital, clinical professor of medicine at NYU School of Medicine, Editor-in-Chief of the "Bellevue Literary Review," and author of "When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error"Medical errors are all statistics until they happen to someone you know. How and when do doctors and nurses screw up? And is being done to lower the odds? Dr. Danielle Ofri's new book tackles the statistics and the stories behind them, including her own near fatal mistake misreading a chart when she was a young doctor. How a Hungarian Physician Saved Women from Childbed Fever and Became the ‘Savior of Mothers'Guest: Anthony Valerio, editor and teacher, author of “Semmelweis”Long before anyone knew what a germ was, in the 1840s, a young Hungarian doctor in Vienna fought to get doctors and nurses to wash their hands. He was ignored, and ultimately driven from the profession. And unnecessary deaths continued for decades to come. We now have a term for what happened. "Semmelweiss Syndrome" happens when experts ignore evidence because it contradicts their traditions and biases.

Please join us as we check in with author Whitney Scharer, author of The Age of Light. This absorbing debut tells a fictionalized account of Lee Miller's life, focusing on the years she spent in Paris and her tumultuous relationship with Surrealist artist Man Ray. An icon during her own time, Lee's bold vision and fearlessness still serve today as a template for a life lived fully. In Whitney's novel, we follow Lee through her time as a model, Surrealist photographer, fashion photographer, war correspondent, and gourmet chef. Whitney will discuss her book as well as provide us with updates about its reception and translation. Whitney holds a BA in English Literature from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. Her short fiction, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous publications including Vogue, The Telegraph, The Tatler, and Bellevue Literary Review. Her first novel, The Age of Light, was published by Little, Brown (US) and Picador (UK) in February, 2019, and was a Boston Globe and IndieNext bestseller and named one of the best books of 2019 by Parade, Glamour Magazine, Real Simple, Refinery 29, Booklist and Yahoo. Internationally, The Age of Light won Le prix Rive Gauche à Paris, was a 2019 coup de coeur selection from the American Library in Paris, and has been published or is forthcoming from over a dozen other countries. Whitney has been awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for the Arts and Ragdale, a St. Botolph Emerging Artists Grant, and a Somerville Arts Council Artists Fellowship. She teaches fiction in the Boston area and is a co-founder of the Arlington Author Salon, a quarterly reading series. *Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public via Zoom. We have moved the events up, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. Recorded 5 May 2020

Joshunda is a Bronx native obsessed with moving stories about black women from the margins to the center of everything. She writes fiction, journalism, poetry and essays. She was the receipt of a 2017 Hedgebrook Writing Residency and selected as one of four Young Women Empowered Teaching Artists. She has presented and lectured on college campuses across the country including at Old Dominion, Princeton, Bard, Iona and Pittsburg State University. Her work has appeared in the DAME Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, Buzzfeed,  Salon, Publishers Weekly, The Week, Bitch Magazine, Gawker, Kirkus Reviews and many other outlets. Her books include: Single & Happy: The Party of Ones, How Racism and Sexism Killed Traditional Media: Why the Future of Journalism Depends on Women and People of Color, the novella All City, and The Beautiful Darkness: A Handbook for Orphans. She served as Principal Deputy Press Secretary at the Department of Energy during the Obama Administration. She currently works as Director of Communications in North America at Change.org. She lives in her hometown, New York City. She tweets at @JoshundaSanders & blogs at joshundasanders.com.

Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning writer and author of The Education of Margot Sanchez, a contemporary young adult novel forthcoming from Simon & Schuster on February 21, 2017. She is a 2016 Pushcart Prize winner and a 2015 Clarion alumni with a Leonard Pung Memorial Scholarship. She has been awarded fellowships from PEN Center USA, A Room Of Her Own Foundation, and received a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. Her short story "Death Defiant Bomba" received honorable mention in Bellevue Literary Review's 2014 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, selected by author Nathan Englander. Lilliam was also a finalist for AWP's 2014 WC&C Scholarship Competition.

Why are obesity, juvenile diabetes and asthma increasing? Is it something in the environment or in our modern lifestyle? Dr. Martin Blaser thinks that it may be due to changes in our microbiome – the ecosystem of tiny microscopic creatures that live in and on us. Learn about his hypothesis that some of the greatest medical advances in the 20th century – antibiotics, C-sections and antiseptics- may be having unintended consequences. Dr. Martin Blaser has studied the role of bacteria in human disease for over 30 years. He is the director of the Human Microbiome Program at NYU. He founded the Bellevue Literary Review and has been written about in newspapers including The New Yorker, Nature, Science, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. His more than 100 media appearances include The Today Show, The Daily Show, Fresh Air (NPR) GMA, the BBC, The O'Reilly Factor, and CNN. He lives in New York City.  

The Wishing Tomb (Perugia Press) by Auchter; Night Radio (University of Utah Press) by Young Two accomplished poets, Amanda Auchter and Kim Young, will visit Skylight to read and sign their new collections, The Wishing Tomb and Night Radio, respectively. "The Wishing Tomb is a lyric history of New Orleans' beauty and brutality, both human and environmental. Amanda Auchter is a poet of rare elegance and dexterity who writes just as movingly about gunshot as she does the markings of brick-scratch left on the tomb of Marie Laveau. Every city deserves the subtle attention of such a poet, a poet brave and nimble enough to touch every line of the city's rough, loved, and disastrous skin." --Katie Ford "The sounds of Night Radio move between hard-won revelation and pulsing music; they spread across the dry outlands of LA, a world of 'silt and turkey vultures' where men in trucks hunt for girls, and where girls kiss their 'practice-hopes,' then run like ambulances toward a 'slick gentleman lighting matches under a streetlight.' Watchful, vulnerable, quick, and shrewd. All this, joined in radiant waves to the 'little signal towers' of the body. A brave and accomplished first book." --David Gewanter Amanda Auchter is the founding editor of Pebble Lake Review and the author of The Glass Crib, winner of the Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry, and the chapbook Light Under Skin. She has received awards and honors from Bellevue Literary Review, BOMB Magazine, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Crab Orchard Review, Southern Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, and was a 2007 finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and teaches creative writing and literature at Lone Star College. Kim Young is the author of Night Radio, winner of the 2011 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize (The University of Utah Press) and the chapbook Divided Highway (Dancing Girl Press, 2008). She is the founding editor of Chaparral—an online journal featuring poetry from Southern California. Her poems have appeared in Los Angeles Review, MiPOesias, No Tell Motel, POOL and elsewhere. She holds an MA at Cal State University Northridge and an MFA at Bennington College, where she received a Jane Kenyon Scholarship in poetry. She was born in Los Angeles and lives in LA with her husband and daughter. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS OCTOBER 26, 2012.