This week's guest on In Her Room is hiker, dancer, and author Renee D'Aoust. Our conversation features thoughts on movement and the body, pedagogy and the writing craft, and so much more. 

The urgency needs to be on the page...

Renee's website
Renee on Twitter
Body of a Dancer

Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies
Water and What We Know :: Karen Babine
Teacher at Point Blank :: Jo Scott-Coe
Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations :: Jules Evans
In Her Room Episode #37: Maggie Messitt

This week's guest on In Her Room is writer, coach, and advocate of healthy boundaries Randi Buckley. Our conversation features the power of Viking women, lots of laughter, and so much more.

Writing is a mountain ... Every time I climb it I get to a different place, 
nd I see new things from there.

Randi's website
Randi on Facebook
Randi on Twitter
Healthy Boundaries for Kind People
"Don't Be So Hungry You Eat the Poison"
A Love Note to the “Hypersensitive,” “Too Nice,” & “Takers-of-It-Too-Personally.”
Concordia Language Villages

This week's guest on In Her Room is author, editor, and publisher Amanda Mays. We talk about the importance of an editor, leaving no trace, and what it means to show up to the page.

I firmly believe in the printed word...

Anchor & Plume Press
Anchor & Plume on Facebook
Anchor & Plume Press on Twitter
Kindred Magazine

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This week's guest on In Her Room is writer, editor, and lover of travel Bronwyn Petry. We talk about maintaining authentic voice, social justice, and so much more.

Writing is my activism.

Bronwyn's Website
Bronwyn on Twitter
Bronwyn on Facebook
Bronwyn on Instagram
"Reclaiming Our Wild Hearts" :: Bronwyn's reading published on Elephant Journal
Be You Media Group

This week's guest on In Her Room is writer, teacher, and journalist Maggie Messitt. We discuss her latest book, The Rainy Season, immersion journalism, and so much more.

Writing...has long been a way inside people unlike me.

Maggie's website
Maggie on Twitter
Maggie on Facebook
Maggie on Instagram
The Rainy Season
"When Your Co-Author is Missing" :: Maggie's essay in Creative Nonfiction 

Immersion/Immersive Journalism (a primer)
Elizabethtown College

This week's guest on In Her Room is writer and pop culture thought-provoker Laura Bogart. We discuss the importance of sticking to the work, showing up to hard topics, and so much more. 

Writing is about giving a voice to my younger self, who did not have [one].

Laura's website
Laura on Twitter
"Dormancy" :: Laura's essay on The Rumpus
"Into the Arena" :: Laura's Hunger Games essay on The Nervous Breakdown
"Empathy for Chrissie Hynde" :: Laura's essay in SPIN Magazine

Mary Gaitskill :: "On Not Being a Victim" (pdf) 
Dorothy Allison
Joyce Carol Oates
Cheryl Strayed
Tori Amos
Sarah Hepola
Sonia Saraiya :: "The Truth About TV's Rape Obsession"

This week's guest on In Her Room is writer, memoirist, and teacher Ellis Avery. We discuss her new book, The Family Tooth, cultivating a curiosity of the natural world, and so much more.

Underneath all the fear, what is it that's just standing there?

Ellis's website
Ellis on Twitter
Ellis on Facebook
The Family Tooth :: released 11/6/15
"On Fear" :: a kindle single from The Family Tooth
The Teahouse Fire
The Last Nude
Broken Rooms :: a collection of Ellis's haiku

Annie Dillard :: "The Death of the Moth" (from Holy the Firm)
Virginia Woolf :: "The Death of the Moth"
Orlando
David Mitchell
Sharon Marcus
Elaine Scarry

This week's guest on In Her Room is poet, medievalist, and teacher of the craft Anne Brannen. Our conversation is full of laughter, aventure, and what it means to listen to the authentic voice within us.

I think writing is breathing.

Anne's website
Anne's blog
Anne on Twitter
Anne on Facebook
Coaching with Anne
Anne's online courses

Reclaiming Tradition
Feri Tradition
Creative Nonfiction magazine
In Her Room Bonus Episode: Starhawk

This week's guest on In Her Room is the sweetest queen of horror writing, Laura Benedict. We talk about the importance of writing what speaks to you, getting back the rights to work, and how Agatha Christie is like porn for readers, among so much more.

As a writer, I want people to know me as a person.

Laura's website
Laura's blog
Laura on Twitter
Laura on Instagram
Laura on Facebook
Laura on Pinterest (one of her favorites!)
"Resistance, Housekeeping, Writing, and Me" :: Laura's blog post about procrastination
Laura's books
Charlotte's Story :: The newest Bliss House novel

Gallowstree Press
Pinckney Benedict :: An Interview on The Rumpus
Louise Penny
Agatha Christie
Sheryl Monks
Press 53
Surreal South
Joyce Carol Oates :: Celestial Timepiece (A Joyce Carol Oates Patchwork)
Robert Olen Butler
Tom Franklin
Lee Abbott
Benjamin Percy

This week's guest on In Her Room is poet, memoirist and writing teacher Sheila Squillante. Our conversation spans writing memoir, working on literary journals, and so much more. 

Writing is a place where I work stuff out.

Sheila's Website
Sheila on Twitter
Sheila's Chapbooks
Beautiful Nerve :: Sheila's poetry collection
"This Weather" :: one of the poems Sheila read

[PANK]
Roxane Gay
Mia Sara
The Fourth River
MFA program at Chatham
Sheryl St. Germain
Vivan Gornick :: An Interview in The Paris Review
VIDA Count