Bill Kenower, Editor-in-Chief of Author magazine, talks to writers of all genres about the books we write and the lives we lead, and how these two are one in the same.
Sarah Braunstein's novel, Bad Animals, was published by W. W. Norton in March 2024 and described by Claire Luchette in the New York Times Book Review as "...a red-hot poker that skewers the limits of the white imagination…[A] sharp-witted, ravishing novel.” Sarah is also the author of The Sweet Relief of Missing Children (W. W. Norton), winner of the 2012 Maine Literary Award for Fiction. The nove...
Caroline Hallemann is the Digital Director of Town & Country magazine, where she writes about culture, society, entertainment, and the world of the rich and powerful. Her work has often focused on the British monarchy, and the closest thing America has to a royal family: the Kennedys. She lives with her family in Nashville, Tennessee.
Jill Rosenberg is the author of NOW I'M PHOTOGENIC AND OTHER STORIES I TELL MYSELF (May 5, 2026; Black Lawrence Press), which is the winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award. She a graduate of Vassar College and the MFA Program at the University of Montana, and her fiction has been published by the Kenyon Review, Swamp Pink, Black Warrior Review, and other journals. She currently lives and writes in Montclair, New Jers...
Claire Boyles is a former sustainable farmer and a 2022 Whiting Award winner in fiction. Her debut novel, Appraisals, about a family of small-scale farmers during the 2008 Great Recession, is forthcoming in August 2026. She lives in northern Colorado
SARA LIPPMANN is the author of the novels Hidden River and Lech and the story collections Doll Palace and Jerks. Her fiction has won the Lilith Fiction Prize and has been honored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and her nonfiction has appeared in The Millions, The Washington Post, The Chicago Review of Books, The Lit Hub and elsewhere. With Seth Rogoff, she co-edited the anthology Smashing the Tablets: Radic...
Hilary Plattner is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her debut memoir, The Momma Puzzle, was shortlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards, and named a finalist for the Wandering Aengus and Trail to Table Book Awards. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University and has taught writing at The New School. Previously, she founded and directed Brooklyn Writers, a community-based...
Susan Wiggs is the author of more than fifty novels, including the beloved Lakeshore Chronicles series and the recent New York Times bestsellers The Lost and Found Bookshop, The Oysterville Sewing Circle, and Family Tree. Her books celebrate the power of love, the timeless bonds of family and the fascinating nuances of human nature. She is an international bestselling, award-winning author, with millions of copies o...
Originally hailing from Leeds, Tom Hindle lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and daughter. He is the author of A Fatal Crossing, The Murder Game, Murder on Lake Garda, Death in the Arctic, and A Killer in Paradise—all of which were inspired by masters of the crime genre such as Agatha Christie and Anthony Horowitz. Tom is hard at work on his next murder mystery.
Liz Lazarus is an engineer by education, a consultant and business owner from experience, and an author given her passion to tell stories. Dawn Before Darkness is her fourth novel, following Free of Malice, Plea for Justice, and Shades of Silence. Learn more at www.lizlazarus.com.
Robert B. McCaw, a graduate of Georgetown University, served as a lieutenant in the US Army and earned a law degree from the University of Virginia. He was a partner in a major international law firm based in Washington, DC, and New York City. He lives in New York.
Manil Suri is the internationally acclaimed author of The Death of Vishnu and other books. His work has been translated into twenty-seven languages and received several honors, including winning the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, and being longlisted for the Booker Prize. He is a distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and lives with his husband in Silver Spring, M...
Andrea Leeb is a writer and advocate living in Venice Beach, California. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals, including Litro Magazine, the Potomac Review, Text Power Telling magazine, and HerStry. In 2025, she was a non-fiction finalist in the Tucson Festival of Books literary awards program. She has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, a JD from the Cardozo School of Law, and a BSN fr...
Miranda Shulman attended Bard College, where she majored in human rights. Before pursuing a career in publishing, she worked at Planned Parenthood. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and still lives there. Harmless is her first novel
Jess Cannon is the pseudonym of a failed academic who never made tenure but still manages to sleep great at night. She spends her days writing award-winning journalism and her nights plotting fictional murders. She lives with her family and an irascible blue heeler in Austin, Texas, where her funky community is a constant source of joy (and writing material). She has a PhD in literature from the University of Texas,...
Melinda Leigh is the #1 Amazon Charts and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Echo Road, the She Can series, the Midnight series, the Scarlet Falls series, the Morgan Dane series, the Bree Taggert series, the Olivia Cruz series, and numerous short stories, as well as the Rogue series novellas and the Widow’s Island series novellas. Melinda has garnered numerous writing awards, earned two RITA nominati...
College admissions expert Jill Margaret Shulman is the author of College Essay Confidence and College Admissions Cracked. The founder of In Other Words, a college essay coaching service, she counsels students applying to a wide array of colleges and has evaluated thousands of applications for top college admissions offices. Shulman has taught writing at The New School, City University of New York, and NYU and has be...
Jay Neugeboren is the author of 25 books, including five prize-winning novels (The Stolen Jew, Before My Life Began,1940, Poli: A Mexican Boy in Early Texas, and The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company), three prize-winning books of nonfiction (Imagining Robert, Transforming Madness, and Whatever Happened to Frankie King), and four collections of award-winning stories. His stories and essays have appeared...
Corinne Sullivan is the Senior News Editor at Cosmopolitan, where she covers celebrity and entertainment news. She graduated from Boston College in 2014 with a degree in English and creative writing. She went on to receive her MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. Her stories have appeared in literary magazines such as Night Train, Knee-Jerk, and Pithead Chapel, among other publications, and her 2018 debut nov...
Judy Batalion is a New York Times bestselling author of award-winning nonfiction and fiction. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Vogue, among others. Judy has a BA in the History of Science from Harvard, a PhD from the University of London, and has worked as a museum curator and university lecturer. She lives in New York City with her husband and three children.
Garrett Curbow is the author of the Daughter of Light trilogy, which was short-listed for the Publishers Weekly Selfies Award. He lives in Savannah, Georgia. For more information, visit www.garrettcurbow.com
In this intensely divided moment, one of the few things everyone still seems to agree on is Dolly Parton—but why? That simple question leads to a deeply personal, historical, and musical rethinking of one of America’s great icons. Join us for a 9-episode journey into the Dollyverse. Hosted by Jad Abumrad. Produced and reported by Shima Oliaee. Dolly Parton’s America is a production from OSM Audio and WNYC Studios.
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