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This episode is part of an interview series for Miami Book Fair, where members of Team Micro interview authors appearing at the fair about their work. For more information about their programming and to check out the incredible roster of authors appearing this year, visit miamibookfair.com. And be sure to follow them at @miamibookfair and #MiamiBookFair2022 for more updates.

Reza Aslan is a leading expert in world religions. He is also a renowned writer, professor, and an Emmy- and Peabody-nominated producer. A recipient of the prestigious James Joyce Award, Aslan is the author of three internationally best-selling books, including the #1 New York Times Bestseller, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.

Drew Hawkins is a writer and journalist in New Orleans. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Scalawag Magazine, Southerly, No Contact, Rejection Letters, HAD, and other publications. You can follow him on Twitter at @WAdrewhawkins.

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You’re listening to a special episode that was curated a street poet based in New Orleans that goes by the name of Cubs the Poet.

Armed with a typewriter and an open mind, Cubs generates his work through intimate conversations with his subjects, and for this show, he selected four poems that loosely revolve around the theme of parenting and childhood. 

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This episode is part of an interview series for Miami Book Fair, where members of Team Micro interview authors appearing at the fair about their work. For more information about their programming and to check out the incredible roster of authors appearing this year, visit miamibookfair.com. And be sure to follow them at @miamibookfair and #MiamiBookFair2022 for more updates.

Cleyvis Natera is an essayist, short fiction writer, critic and novelist. Her debut novel Neruda on the Park was an anticipated book of 2022 by TIME, the Today Show, Good Morning America’s Zibby Owens, ELLE, Ms Magazine, Bustle, Goodreads, Book Riot, Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, Electric Literature, Lit Hub and The Rumpus. Upon publication, Neruda on the Park was selected as a May 2022 New York Times Editor’s Choice and as the June 2022 pick for Nobel Laurate Malala Yousafzai’s Fearless Literati Book Club.  

M.M. Kaufman is a fiction writer based in Georgia. She is a Fulbright Scholar and earned an MFA in the University of New Orleans’ Creative Writing Workshop. She is currently the Managing Editor at Rejection Letters and works on the team for Micro Podcast. Her fiction is published with The Normal School, Hobart, Metonym Journal, Sundog Lit, Daily Drunk Mag, (mac)ro(mic), HAD, Olney Magazine, the Miller Aud-cast, Pine Hills Review, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter @mm_kaufman and on her website mmkaufman.com.

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Dave Housley's third novel, The Other Ones, is coming out in January from Alan Squire Publishing. Sean Ennis is the author of CHASE US: Stories. Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher.

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Abby Manzella is the author of Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements. Eleonora Balsano is a journalist and writer in Brussels, EU. Sarosh Nandwani works as an engineer, reads for the Longleaf Review, writes poetry and creative non-fiction, and loves experimenting with her curly hair.

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Josh Sippie is a NYC-based writer. Amy Collier once saw Fabio at an airport. Krissy Howard is a New Mexico-based writer.

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Kip Knott is a writer, teacher, photographer, and part-time art dealer living in Delaware, Ohio. Austin Ross's fiction and essays have appeared in Hobart, HAD, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere. R.S. Powers is a fiction writer.

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Claire Denson is a Brooklyn-based book publicity manager, editor, and poet. Evan Williams is a Midwestern poet and essayist. Ed Grabianowski is a freelance writer and the singer in a band called Spacelord.

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Amy Lyons writes fiction and nonfiction. Josh Hagy is a writer and high school English teacher from western Virginia. Rachel Trousdale is a poet and professor who teaches at Framingham State University. Jade Hawk is a meat popsicle. Daniel DeRock is an American fiction writer living in the Netherlands.

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Michael Cunningham is the author of The Hours, among other novels. Amber Sparks is the author of And I Do Not Forgive You, The Unfinished World and Other Stories, and the short story collection, May We Shed These Human Bodies. Kirsten Reneau is a writer living in New Orleans.

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