Sabaa Tahir on Resilience & Moral Courage
Do you struggle with the day-to-day of parenthood and the professional life? Can one person really make a difference in standing up to bigotry? What are the differences between honesty…
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Stephanie Garber on Overcoming Fear By Letting Go
Have you ever reached a point where you wanted to give up on your creative dreams after piles of rejections? Have you been struggling to push past a serious creative…
Emily X.R. Pan on Navigating A Meaningful Path after a Career Change
Emily X.R. Pan is the New York Times bestselling author of her debut novel “The Astonishing Color of After”. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Bodega Magazine, and a 2017 Artist-in-Residence…
Rhoda Belleza on Silencing Your Internal Editor
Rhoda Belleza is a children’s editor at a publishing house and is the author of Empress of a Thousand Skies and Blood of a Thousand Stars. The New York Times Book…
Atia Abawi on Humanizing The Refugee Crisis Through Storytelling
Atia Abawi is an author, foreign correspondent, and award-winning journalist. Born a refugee to Afghan parents in West Germany and raised in the United States, Atia has reported on war,…
Gloria Chao on Exploring Cultural Identity Through Storytelling
I’m thrilled to kick off the first episode of 2018 with one of our long-time listeners, Gloria Chao! Gloria is an MIT grad turned dentist turned writer and her debut American…
Carmen Maria Machado on Staying Focused on Creating Your Best Work
Carmen Maria Machado is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Guernica, Gulf Coast, NPR, and more. Carmen’s debut short story…
Erika L Sanchez An Unwavering Love of Writing
Poet, novelist, and essayist, Erika L. Sanchez was a Fulbright Scholar, CantoMundo Fellowship recipient, and Bread Loaf Scholar. Her debut young adult novel, “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter”,…
