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Episode 101A – Diane Zinna – The All Night Sun
Overview
When she was in her mid-twenties, debut author Diane Zinna found herself completely on her own in a new city, teaching at a small Catholic college outside of DC. She was in the middle of a long period of grief following the loss of both of her parents when she met and befriended a Swedish student at the school. Their bond deepened, and the student invited her to visit Sweden with her for the summer. This trip was a sort of thawing out for Zinna, and the start of a long-awaited healing process. But questions stuck in her mind long after she returned home: what if things had gone wrong on the trip, when Zinna was still so emotionally fragile? What if things took a turn at the school she worked at, which had been a lifeline for her at the time? What would she have had to learn to keep going? Out of these questions came THE ALL-NIGHT SUN, a propulsive, memorable debut.Diane Zinna is originally from Long Island, New York. She received her MFA from the University of Floridaand has taught writing workshops for more than a decade. She formerly worked at AWP, the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and in 2014, Diane created the Writer to Writer Mentorship Program, helping to match more than six hundred writers over twelve seasons. Diane has become well-known for her popular, online grief writing sessions that have grown each Sunday since the start of the pandemic. Diane lives in Fairfax, Virginia, with her husband and daughter. The All-Night Sun is her first novel.
Her Book
All-night sun
Favorites
Lincoln in Bardo
https://www.bardsalley.com/
YouTube
https://youtu.be/-fCXLZ_Lyqw
Transcript
Diane, I want to walk him into the podcast. And how are you doing today?
[00:01:38] Diana: I'm doing great. Thank you so much for having me.
[00:01:41] Stephen: It's good to see you. I'm glad we could get on. Let's tell everybody a little bit about you tell us where you live and what you like to do besides.
[00:01:51] Diana: Sure. So I live right now, right outside of Washington, DC in Northern Virginia, but I grew up on long island and went to college on long island and [00:02:00] did my masters and were pretty writing in Florida.
So I've been all up and down the east coast, but I'm a Northern Virginia girl now. Other than writing. I love to travel, which I haven't been able to do much lately, but people who've read my work can really see and feel my love of visiting other cultures and countries. And part of that I think is also my love for learning other languages.
And so I'm always, probably have my nose in my phone doing an app or. I am just reading a little bit of something and another language has to keep adding more and more words and sounds to
[00:02:37] Stephen: my heart. Yeah. And I know a lot of people are discovering reading on the phone, actually isn't bad,
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Overview
When she was in her mid-twenties, debut author Diane Zinna found herself completely on her own in a new city, teaching at a small Catholic college outside of DC. She was in the middle of a long period of grief following the loss of both of her parents when she met and befriended a Swedish student at the school. Their bond deepened, and the student invited her to visit Sweden with her for the summer. This trip was a sort of thawing out for Zinna, and the start of a long-awaited healing process. But questions stuck in her mind long after she returned home: what if things had gone wrong on the trip, when Zinna was still so emotionally fragile? What if things took a turn at the school she worked at, which had been a lifeline for her at the time? What would she have had to learn to keep going? Out of these questions came THE ALL-NIGHT SUN, a propulsive, memorable debut.Diane Zinna is originally from Long Island, New York. She received her MFA from the University of Floridaand has taught writing workshops for more than a decade. She formerly worked at AWP, the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and in 2014, Diane created the Writer to Writer Mentorship Program, helping to match more than six hundred writers over twelve seasons. Diane has become well-known for her popular, online grief writing sessions that have grown each Sunday since the start of the pandemic. Diane lives in Fairfax, Virginia, with her husband and daughter. The All-Night Sun is her first novel.
Her Book
All-night sun
Favorites
Lincoln in Bardo
https://www.bardsalley.com/
YouTube
https://youtu.be/-fCXLZ_Lyqw
Transcript
Diane, I want to walk him into the podcast. And how are you doing today?
[00:01:38] Diana: I'm doing great. Thank you so much for having me.
[00:01:41] Stephen: It's good to see you. I'm glad we could get on. Let's tell everybody a little bit about you tell us where you live and what you like to do besides.
[00:01:51] Diana: Sure. So I live right now, right outside of Washington, DC in Northern Virginia, but I grew up on long island and went to college on long island and [00:02:00] did my masters and were pretty writing in Florida.
So I've been all up and down the east coast, but I'm a Northern Virginia girl now. Other than writing. I love to travel, which I haven't been able to do much lately, but people who've read my work can really see and feel my love of visiting other cultures and countries. And part of that I think is also my love for learning other languages.
And so I'm always, probably have my nose in my phone doing an app or. I am just reading a little bit of something and another language has to keep adding more and more words and sounds to
[00:02:37] Stephen: my heart. Yeah. And I know a lot of people are discovering reading on the phone, actually isn't bad,