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Cabana Chats: Amy Shearn
In this eleventh full episode of Cabana Chats, writer Amy Shearn talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about how our life circumstances impact our writing, and the joy of finding writing that speaks to you and connecting with strangers via your own writing. Some possible podcast spinoff ideas are also discussed! Also -- is Amy alien or human? You'll have to listen to find out!
Amy Shearn is the award-winning author of the novels Unseen City, The Mermaid of Brooklyn, and How Far Is the Ocean From Here. She is the Content Lead for Writing at Medium and editor of Human Parts and Creators Hub. A former fiction editor at the literary magazine Joyland, Amy's work has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Catapult, and many other publications. Amy has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, and currently lives in Brooklyn with her two children. You can find her at amyshearnwrites.com or @amyshearn.
Find out more about Amy Shearn here: https://www.amyshearnwrites.com/
Link to Unseen City here.
Here's a link to Amy's Modern Love essay!: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/style/modern-love-how-a-missing-sock-changed-my-life.html
Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/
More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/
Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota.
Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro.
FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/
Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC
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In this eleventh full episode of Cabana Chats, writer Amy Shearn talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about how our life circumstances impact our writing, and the joy of finding writing that speaks to you and connecting with strangers via your own writing. Some possible podcast spinoff ideas are also discussed! Also -- is Amy alien or human? You'll have to listen to find out!
Amy Shearn is the award-winning author of the novels Unseen City, The Mermaid of Brooklyn, and How Far Is the Ocean From Here. She is the Content Lead for Writing at Medium and editor of Human Parts and Creators Hub. A former fiction editor at the literary magazine Joyland, Amy's work has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Catapult, and many other publications. Amy has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, and currently lives in Brooklyn with her two children. You can find her at amyshearnwrites.com or @amyshearn.
Find out more about Amy Shearn here: https://www.amyshearnwrites.com/
Link to Unseen City here.
Here's a link to Amy's Modern Love essay!: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/style/modern-love-how-a-missing-sock-changed-my-life.html
Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/
More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/
Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota.
Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro.
FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/
Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC