Writers on Record

Sadly I lost the file to part two, but you can still get my insights on the content missed.

Julian Hoffman is a nonfiction author who lives beside the Prespa Lakes in Northwestern Greece where he and his wife earn a living monitoring bird species where wind farms have been built or proposed. His first book, The Small Heart of Things, was selected by Terry Tempest Williams as the winner of the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction and published in 2013 by the University of Georgia Press. It is a wonderful tale about the relationship between human and nature written in a detailed, breathtaking way. Tempest describes it as "a tapestry of embodied stories born out of the intimate wisdom of sweat and hunger and an earthly intelligence" and it's also described as putting the reader at ease with its description of the natural surroundings of the Prespa Lake area in a way which is comforting and familiar. I would second this comment, adding that this book's details rival any I've read. Julian puts us right in the moment, describing landscapes and occurrences with precision and wonderful wordplay. In part o

In the final part of our interview, poet Curtis Bauer shares the hardest and most rewarding part about writing and how you can use your prose to hook him. 

In part two of my interview with Curtis Bauer, he talks about how jobs can help fund your writing and why young writers should know the business side of writing. 

I sit down with Curtis Bauer, an author of two poetry collections and translator of poetry and prose to Spanish. He is the editor of Q Avenue Press Chapbooks and the Spanish Translations Editor for From the Fishouse, an online audio archive that showcases emerging poets. He's been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, been a finalist for the New Letters Poetry Prize, the Glimmer Train Poetry Prize, and the Iowa Review Award for Poetry. His first collection of poems, Fence Line, won the Jogn Ciardi Poetry Prize in 2003. Now, Curtis teaches Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. His most recent work, The Real Cause for your Absence, details Curtis's experiences and emotions as he moved from America to Spain. It is a delightfully detailed collection with expert word choice and vivid details. 

On the final part of my interview with fiction author Andrew Malan Milward, he talks about the challenges of writing historical fiction and how you can let confidence show through your prose. 

On part two of my interview with fiction author Andrew Malan Milward, he discusses the importance of routine and the troubles he's had marketing short stories. 

I talk with Andrew Malan Milward, a native of Lawrence, Kansas, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has published fiction in places such as The Southern Review and Best New American Voices. His first novel, The Agriculture Hall of Fame, was awarded the Juniper Prize in Fiction in 2012. He has served as the McCreight Fiction Fellow as the University of Wisconsin and a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University. He currently resides in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he teaches at the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers and is editor-in-chief of the Mississippi Review. His newest short story collection, I was a Revolutionary, explores questions of history, race, and identity. Taking place in his home state of Kansas, the stories span from the Civil War era to the present, showcasing an impressive cast of characters, each complex and unique as they navigate the war torn and haunted terrain of the Kansas landscape. 

In the final part of my interview with Michele Weldon, a retired professor, editor, and author of five nonfiction books, she discusses the importance of keeping your venture of writing a novel secret. 

In the second part of my interview with Michele Weldon, a retired professor, keynote speaker, and author of five nonfiction books, she tells us how she wrote her first book, I Closed My Eyes, amidst her jobs and how it is important to find time to write. 

In the first part of my three part interview with Michele Weldon, author of five nonfiction books, we talk about her newest memoir, Escape Points, and I throw multiple, fun questions at her. Michele is a senior leader of the Op-Ed Project, a social venture founded to increase the range of voices and quality of ideas heard in the world. She also started Medilltalks, a series of lectures designed to increase the visibility of new ideas about journalism from Northwestern faculty and the Medill community. She's a retired professor, editor, keynote speaker, and newspaper writer, contributing to places such as the Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, LA Times, and TIME magazine. She has also appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CBS Morning Show, and NPR.