Textual Healing with Mallory Smart

Kevin Sampsell is an American writer living in Portland, Oregon. He has worked at Powell's Book Store since 1998 as an events coordinator and the head of the small press section. His memoir, A Common Pornography, was published by Harper Perennial in January 2010.

His latest book, I Made an Accident: Collages and Poems, just came out from Clash Books.

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Be sure to check out past episodes and future ones every other Saturday. Textual Healing also has new micro-episodes called "Off The Record" that will appear every Saturday where there aren't full-length author interviews. The next "Off The Record" episode will feature C E Hoffman reading an excerpt from their new chapbook, Ghost, Trolls, And Other Things On The Internet.

Scott Mitchel May is a writer living with his wife and son in Madison, Wisconsin. His work has appeared in Maudlin House, Rejection Letters, The Bear Creek Gazette, The Maryland Literary Review, Bending Genres, and many more. He was the winner of the 2019 Poem or Page Contest at the UW Writers' Conference in the category of Literary Fiction. His debut collection of short fiction, DeKalb, Illinois is a Paradise What Eats its Own, was published by Alien Buddha in 2022. He works as an administrator for The Only in Wisconsin Giving Foundation where he coordinates grants for non-profits doing work in the areas of childhood education, healthcare, domestic violence emergency sheltering, and hunger relief. Scott holds a GED from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and a BS in Literature from Edgewood College.

In this episode, we do our best to just talk about Austin’s new book and how music plays into it! But in the classic Textual Healing style, we get into very weird tangents. Cover bands. Four Lokos. Painting Nails. Taylor Swift. Fun playlist ideas. Everything. 

Austin Davis is a poet and activist. He is the founder AZ Hugs For the Houseless.

You can find Austin on Twitter @Austin_Davis17 and on Instagram @austinwdavis1.

Here is his website: https://msha.ke/austindavis/

Check out articles about his activism and writing on

LitHub: https://lithub.com/poetry-is-a-form-of-love-austin-davis-on-bridging-art-and-activism-with-az-hugs-for-the-houseless/

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Maudlin House:

SODA & TELEPATHS:

There were a few times when our mics got cut off and we had to restart certain parts of our conversation. Only one of those times is left in the episode for the sake of context. Taylor Swift context.

"Off The Record" is a new micro-segment of Textual Healing. Authors on the show get to pair some of their writing with music that they think matches it best.

Francis Daulerio is a poet and teacher from Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Arcadia University in 2014 before releasing If & When We Wake (Unsolicited Press 2015) and _Please Plant This Book_ (The Head & The Hand Press 2018), both with illustrations by Scottish artist, Scott Hutchison. Francis has also released All Is Not Lost, a collaborative vinyl EP of poetry-infused music to benefit the Tiny Changes charity organization, and With a Difference (Trident Boulder 2020), a split book of ‘covers’ with Philadelphia author Nick Gregorio.

He just released a full-length poetry collection called Joy from Unsolicited Press.

You can check out his website: https://francisdaulerio.com/

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His Twitter: @FDWrites

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Nada Alic is a writer in Los Angeles. Her debut story collection BAD THOUGHTS is out July 12, 2022 (Vintage).

From 2014-2016 she collaborated with artist, Andrea Nakhla on an art and fiction book series called “Future You,” featured in Urban Outfitters, Cool Hunting, The Rumpus and elsewhere. In 2019, her short story, “The Intruder” was shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize. That summer, Nada attended the Banff Centre for the Arts writing residency. In 2020, She received a literary grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Previously, Nada was an editorial director and community manager for brands such as Etsy, Society6, Gap Inc and Athleta. For nearly a decade, she championed independent artists by creating opportunities to help them grow. Through education and partnerships with non-profits like Planned Parenthood, Girlschool and PS ARTS, she advocated for the growth, well-being and recognition of artists from all disciplines.

You can find out more about her work on her website: http://www.nadaalic.com/

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On her Twitter: @nadaalic

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Bud Smith works heavy construction and lives in Jersey City, NJ. He is the author of Teenager (Vintage,  2022), Double Bird (Maudlin House, 2018), Dust Bunny City (Disorder Press, 2017), among others. His wife Rae Buleri is behind the illustrations in Teenager. You can find her on Instagram @raewatch.

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Graham Irvin is a writer who lives in Philadelphia. He was born in North Carolina. He is the author of Liver Mush, from Back Patio Press. And he tweets weird things  @grahamjirvin._ _

In this episode, we talk about his book, Liver Mush, the fact that it's a real thing that you eat, coffee, awkward social interactions, AWP, the last concerts we’ve gone to, and what our signs are. For those randomly interested, I'm a Virgo...

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Tobias Carroll is the author of three books: one novel, one story collection, and one work of nonfiction.

His most recent book, Political Sign, was published by Bloomsbury as part of the Object Lessonsseries in 2020. Prior to that came a collection of short stories, Transitory, and a novel, Reel, on Rare Bird Books.

His second novel, Ex-Members, will be released by Astrophil Press on June 15, 2022.

He also is the managing editor of Vol.1 Brooklyn and writes the Watchlist column for Words Without Borders. He can be found on Twitter and Instagram and Patreon.

Scott Mitchel May is a guy doing things like writing and skating and going to therapy and working and submitting and also too he enjoys reading and cooking and classic cars (but in a vague way where he's never owned a classic car) and punk rock and hardcore hip-hop. He loves his wife.

In this episode, we talk about musical genres and all the different elements that make them what they are, weird things that are overrated and underrated, Scott’s writing, and how psyched I was to finally interview someone who likes Frank Turner.  

Be sure to check out his website: https://www.scottmitchelmay.com/

Grab a copy of his book, DeKalb, Illinois is a Paradise What Eats Its Own: a collection of short stories from his site or on Amazon.