Shedding Light: An Interview with Lizzy, author of Unconditional
Lizzy grew up in Maryland and is a cat mom (she learned to love cats thanks to Adam). She’d love to hear from you on Instagram: @unconditional_memoir.
Author Interviews
Swirls of Thought: An Interview with William King, author of In the Cause of Liberty
William S. King is an independent scholar living in Ocala, Florida. His previous book, To Raise Up a Nation – John Brown, Frederick Douglass and the Making of a Free Country, was selected by CHOICE as the outstanding academic title…
An Interview with Charles Ota Heller, author of Cowboy From Prague
Charles Ota Heller is the author of four memoirs in English and one in Czech. The former are Prague: My Long Journey Home, Close Encounters with the Famous and Near-Famous, Ready, Fire, Aim! An Immigrant’s Tales of Entrepreneurial Terror, and…
Blooms and Batik: An Interview with Elisabeth Conway, author of Hope Dares to Blossom
Elisabeth Conway is a British author who grew up in the Worcestershire countryside, but who spent a considerable part of her life in Southeast Asia, which she first encountered as a student of social anthropology.
Bears and Basketball: An Interview with Robin D’Amato, author of Don’t Poke the Bear
Connecticut-born Robin D’Amato moved to New York City to attend New York University, fell in love with the city, and never left. In 1984, she was introduced to the Macintosh computer and has worked in the publishing industry as a…
A Story’s Flight: An Interview with Sandra Fox Murphy, author of Mourning of the Dove
Sandra Fox Murphy is originally from Glasgow, Delaware, but grew up an “Air Force brat.” Ms. Murphy was inspired to write verse and stories while studying the beatnik poets at Indian Valley College in California and she is a graduate…
The Making of an Author: An Interview with Mireille Parker, author of Love Queen
Mireille Parker is an Indian Australian author from Fremantle, West Australia, who has devoted herself to writing for the past fifteen years. Journaling since age eleven, Mireille wanted to be a writer since discovering Anais Nin in the film Henry…
Surprise Endings: An Interview with Marian Birch, author of The Age of Reason
Marian Birch was born and raised in New York City but spent most of her adult life on the West Coast, the past thirty years on the Olympic Peninsula. She was a clinical psychologist specializing in work with mothers and…
The Untold Story: An Interview with Justine Gladden, author of Me & Mrs. Jones
Justine Gladden has always thought about putting a lot of things on the wall as far as accomplishments and certificates. After quitting school at an early age, she went back and got her GED. She became a licensed foster parent,…
The Way Forward: An Interview with Kendall Roberts, author of Gunslingers
Kendall Roberts lives in California. In his spare time, he enjoys writing, biking, and board games. Gunslingers is his first novel.
Between Desolation and Joy: An Interview with Karin Rathert, author of Invitation to a Hanging
Karin Rathert grew up in North Dakota, close to where Mondak once flourished. She lives in Colorado and is a writer, editor, and mother of three amazing kids. When not writing, she loves yoga, music, travel, and photographing abandoned buildings.…
Poetic Catharsis: An Interview with Elmo Shade, author of The Dark Side of White Bread
Elmo Shade is the author of four poetry collections, his latest being The Dark Side of White Bread: Surviving Our Fathers – A Poetry Chapbook, 2023. His work has been published in The SubjectivJournal, Nine Cloud Journal, and The Pointed…
The Wonder of Words: An Interview with Tabitha Sprunger, author of Hart Street and Main
Tabitha Sprunger is an art educator, illustrator, and writer. Her debut novel, Hart Street and Main has been a #1 Amazon New Release in YA Magical Realism Fiction, along with receiving 5-Star Readers’ Favorite ratings and being IndieReader approved. The…
Mapping Memories: An Interview with Patti Isaacs, author of The Second Long March
Patti Isaacs is a cartographer and writer who lives in Stillwater, Minnesota. She grew up in a family that loved to travel. She became the unofficial curator of the family subscription to National Geographic, which fueled her interest in maps…
From Pixels to Prose: An Interview with Daniel Varona, author of The Cycle of Eden
Daniel Varona has been a fan of video games from a very early age and was heavily inspired by some recognizable classics. What piqued his interest in writing was the attention to detail those passionate developers pulled off at the…
World of Words: An Interview with Allyson Barkley, author of A Vision in Smoke
Allyson S. Barkley is the author of the Until the Stars Are Dead fantasy series, and many other never-to-be-published novels, short stories, poems, and essays. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Allyson grew up an avid reader, writer, and horseback rider. She…
Literary Exploration: An Interview with Ben Stoltzfus, author of Transgression
Ben Stoltzfus is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, and French at the University of California, Riverside. He is a novelist, translator, literary critic, and inter-arts scholar. He has published many articles on twentieth-century French, English, and American writers,…
Archaeologist to Author: An Interview with Matthew McKee, author of Keeping the Stars Awake
I was born in Denver, Colorado, but was raised in small-town Wyoming. From a very young age, I was an avid reader and tinkerer with the written word. I had always considered writing the medium that suited me best and…
Lights, Camera, Words: An Interview with Jeff Ingber, author of Daria’s Secrets
Jeff Ingber is the author of six books as well as numerous short stories and screenplays, for which he’s won numerous awards. One of his novels, Shattered Lives, was made into a documentary film by MacTavish Productions. He’s had many…
Defying the Odds: An Interview with Wilson Semitti, author of A Boy Who Loved Me
Wilson Semitti is a Ugandan man born with sickle cells trying to be who he is at all costs despite the prejudices and cultural beliefs surrounding him.