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Atmosphere Press is proud to bring readers the Atmosphere Press Presents author interview series. We’re happy to have this archive of excellent interviews and author success stories for you to enjoy. Learn about writers and their books, from book title origin stories to music playlists that relate to their writing to what it was like seeing the cover for the first time.
 
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An Interview with Nancy Willbern

After receiving my doctorate in developmental psychology in 1994, I went into private practice as a transpersonal psychotherapist.

An Interview with Ivan Oorton

At only sixteen years old, Ivan Oorton aspires to become a nuclear engineer, but that only helps in enhancing his writing journey.

An Interview with David Beaumier

David Beaumier is the communications and marketing manager at Chanticleer Book Reviews, author of The Mourning Fields, and the youngest recipient of the Village Books Literary Citizenship Award.

An Interview with Salem Lynn

I am a thirty-two-year-old transmasc queer from Reno, NV. I am a single parent, and live with chronic illness and disability. I try to stay positive and I always follow the speed limit...you know, mostly. I’ve been writing my entire life and used to dream about seeing my books on the shelves. Now I live it, and I couldn’t ask for more than that.

An Interview with Rachel Roscoe

I am 47 years old, a homemaker originally from Northumberland but now living in Plymouth with my husband, Ross, and our three children.

An Interview with Chloe Sargeant

Chloe is a music producer and composer who is already working on other projects aside from Timeless. A NYC native, she now lives in Pennsylvania with her two dogs, two parakeets, and her dad. Creating great stories that inspire, uplift, and call for positive change is what she gravitates to.

An Interview with Maurice Carter

In this life, we will face difficult challenges along the way. Once they arise, there are two ways to respond to them. We can make our own decisions by doing what seems best for us, thinking that we know how to handle the situation. Most people go through life by trusting in their own understanding of making choices their way instead of God’s way.

Mitchell Waldman’s fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Web. Waldman is the author of the novels The Visitor and A Face in the Moon, and two story collections: Brothers, Fathers, and Other Strangers and Petty Offenses and Crimes of the Heart.

An Interview with Harry Wallace

Harry Henry Wallace is an Australian writer based in Sydney. He has been happily married to Nelly for more than thirty-six years and is the proud father of three amazing children and grandfather of two cherished grandchildren.

An Interview with Lyman Ditson

Lyman Ditson is a self-taught poet and author who writes about love, memory, loss, and what it means for human creativity to meet machine intelligence. After turning to poetry during a difficult season of life, he discovered that an AI persona he calls ‘Adam AI’ could respond to his poems in surprising and sometimes moving ways.