Switchback Podcast

Graduates who can write and teach! From the USF MFA program in Writing. Kelsey Ahlmark is interviewed by Garrett Miller for Switchback on "Teaching Creative Writing in High school" and "Flash Non-Fiction." How cool can you go?

Award-winning author Nina Schuyler talks about her wonderful book "The Translator" with Rafael Herrero for Switchback, the podcast and literary magazine for the MFA program in Writing at the University San Francisco. Winner of the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Award for General Fiction. Listen in if you're a writer: Nina Schuyler gives great advice on craft! http://ninaschuyler.com/

Mike Massy talks about creativity, what helps, what gets the engines running, the strength to be found in diversity and what fears to get rid of. Meet the man and his art. His songs, his voice, his texts, his explorations. www.mikemassy.com Contact us at [email protected] or swback.com

The world is always better with poetry.. Listen to Brynn Saito talk about poetry in this wonderful interview with fellow poet Hays Berry. Let Brynn Saito read to you some of her poems and explain how her life has shaped her poetry. Savor this hour with the author of "Power Made Us Swoon" (2016) and "The Palace of Contemplating Departure" (2013), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award and finalist for the Northern California Book Award and the Milt Kessler Poetry Award. Brynn was born and raised in Fresno (CA) to a Korean American mother and a Japanese American father. Her poetry has been anthologized by Helen Vendler and Ishmael Reed; it has also appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Poetry Northwest, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other journals. She is the recipient of a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship, the Poets 11 award from the San Francisco Public Library, and the Key West Literary Seminar’s Scotti Merrill Memorial Award. Brynn Saito teaches in the MFA at USF. Currently, Brynn lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is the co-founder and director of the Center for Spiritual Life, an adjunct Assistant Professor in the BA program at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and director of the Center for Writing and Scholarship at CIIS. Wow!

The world is always better with poetry. Listen to Brynn Saito talk about poetry in this wonderful interview with fellow poet Hays Berry. Let Brynn Saito read to you some of her poems and explain how her life and past have shaped her poetry. Savor this hour with the author of "Power Made Us Swoon" (2016) and "The Palace of Contemplating Departure" (2013), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award and finalist for the Northern California Book Award and the Milt Kessler Poetry Award. Brynn was born and raised in Fresno (CA) to a Korean American mother and a Japanese American father. Her poetry has been anthologized by Helen Vendler and Ishmael Reed; it has also appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Poetry Northwest, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other journals. She is the recipient of a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship, the Poets 11 award from the San Francisco Public Library, and the Key West Literary Seminar’s Scotti Merrill Memorial Award. Brynn Saito teaches in the MFA at USF. Currently, Brynn lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is the co-founder and director of the Center for Spiritual Life, an adjunct Assistant Professor in the BA program at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and director of the Center for Writing and Scholarship at CIIS. Ay caramba!

Combining sci-fi and historical fiction? They've done it! Writing a book à duo? They've done that, too! Listen to Spanish authors Higinio Pérez and José Villalba talk about their new book "Oddities: From Spain to Saturn." Interview in Spanish! Find out more at https://deuclesaencelado.com/

Marilyn Yalom talks about her fascinating book "How The French Invented Love." Travel with this erudite feminist professor from Stanford across the centuries through French literature and discover how the French have understood what it means to love. Love is understood by Yalom under all its possibilities. ;-)

Episode 6: "The One Where We Talk to A Paramedic. In this Episode we talk to a paramedic, an bakery owner, and a recently published author. Oh yeah, that's all the same person. But I guess no one cares."

Episode 6: "The One Where We Talk to A Paramedic. In this Episode we talk to a paramedic, an bakery owner, and a recently published author. Oh yeah, that's all the same person. But I guess no one cares."

The One Were The Zodiac Killer's Son Shows Up, or I am Not My Father's Son, Our Interview With Gary Stewart." In this Episode, we talk to Gary Stewart, New York Times bestselling author, father, businessman, and son of the infamous Zodiac Killer."