Past Forward

Today our podcast connects with Dani Hedlund, CEO of the literary nonprofit Tethered by Letters, Editor-in-Chief of the journal F(r)iction, and author of the novel Threads of Deception. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Dani Hedlund

Today our podcast connects with Rachel Howzell Hall, author of A Quiet Storm (Scribner), The View from Here, No One Knows You’re Here, and the Detective Elouise Norton series (Forge Books). She serves on the Board of Directors for the Mystery Writers of America, and has participated as a mentor in the Association of Writers & Writing Programs’ Writer-to-Writer program. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Rachel Howzell Hall

Today our podcast connects with Jonathan Eller, Director of The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Senior Textual Editor of the Institute for American Thought, editor of The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury, author of Becoming Ray Bradbury and Ray Bradbury Unbound (University of Illinois Press), and co-author with William Touponce of Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction (Kent State University Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jonathan Eller

Today our podcast connects with Andrew Tonkovich, editor of the Santa Monica Review; host of Bibliocracy Radio; Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine; co-editor alongside his wife, Lisa Alvarez, of the forthcoming The Barricades of Heaven: A Literary Field Guide to Orange County, California (Heyday); and writer whose work has appeared in publications such as Los Angeles Review of Books, Faultline, Ecotone and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Andrew Tonkavich

Today our podcast connects with Ben Loory, 2016 The Plaza Literary Prize Judge, instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, and author of numerous books including Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (Penguin Books) and The Baseball Player and the Walrus (Dial Books). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Ben Loory

Today our podcast connects with Lilliam Rivera, author of the forthcoming young adult novel The Education of Margot Sanchez (Simon & Schuster); host of the Radio Sombra show Literary Soundtrack; Pushcart Prize winner; editor of the 1888 novellas Harlem's Awakening, Bellies and Buffalos, and 116* Days with Dad; and 2016 The Plaza Literary Prize Judge. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Lilliam Rivera

Today our podcast connects with Lux Alptraum and Leigh Stein of BinderCon, a non-profit organization and convention devoted to advancing the careers of women and gender non-conforming writers. Lux is also a writer whose work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Salon.com, TheAtlantic.com, GOOD Magazine, and more. Leigh is author of the novel The Fallback Plan (Melville House), the poetry collection Dispatch from the Future (Melville House), and the forthcoming memoir Land of Enchantment (Blue Rider Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Lux Alptraum and Leigh Stein

Today our podcast connects with Lisa Pearson, Publisher and Founder of Siglio Press, editor of It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image+Text Work by Women Artists & Writers, and LA Times Person to Watch. Photo: Bob Chamberlin Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Lisa Pearson

Today our podcast connects with Neelanjana Banerjee, 2016 The Plaza Literary Prize Judge; Managing Editor of Kaya Press; assistant editor with the Los Angeles Review of Books; instructor with artworxLA and Writing Workshops Los Angeles; journalist; co-editor of Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press); and writer whose works have appeared in anthologies such as Desilicious (Arsenal Press), The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (HarperCollins India), and Breaking the Bow: Speculative Stories Inspired by the Ramayana (Zubaan Books), as well as in numerous magazines and journals such as PANK Magazine, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, and Asian Pacific American Journal. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Neelanjana Banerjee

Today our podcast reconnects with Kevin Smokler, 2016 The Plaza Literary Prize Judge. Kevin is the author of “Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven’t Touched Since High School” (2013) and a forthcoming book on 80s movies. His cultural essays and criticism have appeared in Salon Vulture, Buzzfeed, The LA Times, Fast Company and on NPR. He lives in San Francisco. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Kevin Smokler