Past Forward

Today we're connected with Nathan Gonzalez, Publisher and Executive Editor of Nortia Press; Fellow with the Truman National Security Project; professor of Middle East politics and International Studies at California State University, Long Beach; author of Engaging Iran (Praeger) and The Sunni-Shia Conflict (Potomac/Nortia); and composer of chamber and orchestral music. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Nathan Gonzalez

Today we're connected with Sophie Wereley, editor of Shimmer Magazine, past editorial assistant at University of Chicago Press, and fiction writer whose works have been published in Daily Science Fiction and Intergalactic Medicine Show. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Sophie Wereley

Today we're connected with Ken Baumann, Founder of Sator Press, series cover designer at Boss Fight Books, author of Say, Cut, Map (Blue Square Press) and Solip (Tyrant Books), editor of the literary journal No Colony, co-founder of Sweetspot for iPhone, investor in Memrise, student at St. John's College, and actor in The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Ken Baumann

Today we're connected with Abigail Beckel, Co-Founder and Publisher at Rose Metal Press, author, and editor of Brevity & Echo: An Anthology of Short Short Stories (Rose Metal Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Abigail Beckel

Today we're connected with Caryl Pagel, Editress-in-Chief of Rescue Press, and Daniel Khalastchi, Co-Founder and Managing Editor. Caryl is the author of Experiments I Should Like Tried At My Own Death (Factory Hallow Press), and Twice Told (H_NGM_N Books), editor of jubilat, Director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, and faculty member at the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program (NEOMFA). Daniel is the author of Manoleria (Tupelo Press) and Tradition (McSweeney’s) and Associate Director of the University of Iowa’s Frank N. Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Caryl Pagel and Daniel Khalastchi

Today we're connected with Carl Engle-Laird, editorial assistant at Tor.com and editor of Tor.com's novella series. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Carl Engle-Laird

Today we're connected with Kevin Smokler. Kevin is a writer, performer and public speaker based in San Francisco. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Kevin Smokler

Today we're connected with Vincent Scarpa, managing editor of The Austin Review and Spotlight, fiction writer, and Michener Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Vincent Scarpa

Today we're connected with Nathan Gebhard, founder and creative director of Roadtrip Nation and co-author of Roadmap (Chronicle Books). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Nathan Gebhard

Today we're connected with Mellinda Hensley and Lauren Gorski, editors-in-chief of Southern California Review, the literary journal affiliated with the University of Southern California. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Mellinda Hensley and Lauren Gorski