Michelle and I used to tell other people’s stories as actors in NYC, but she has found her own voice as an author, and she’s using it! My son loved the first two books in her trilogy The Girl, the Pendant and the Portal, and is eagerly awaiting the release of the final novel. She…

A young man struggling in school is encouraged to drop out by his own guidance counselor. He does just that, backpacking across the country to return to his roots – the Ojibwe tribe in Minnesota.

Find him on social media:

Instagram: @jamesbirdbooks

Facebook: James Bird

Twitter: @Jamesbirdwriter

Jennifer Niven thought James Bird would be a perfect fit for The Listen Podcast, and she could not have been more on point! James has a strong sure voice, and he is using it – to speak up for indigenous people, for children, and for all those who need our support.  “First I wanna connect…

My conversation with Jennifer did not disappoint! Like two Hoosiers sitting around catching up, we touched on lots of subjects, shared some belly laughs, and came to some common insights. An author plans to hole up and write on a remote island, but on the very first day she meets and falls in love with…

An author plans to hole up and write on a remote island, but on the very first day she meets and falls in love with a man who bears a striking resemblance to her lead character.

Her website/blog is: https://www.jenniferniven.com/

Welcome back to The Listen Podcast! Join us on Monday, October 5th as we kick off Season 9, a series of interviews featuring Writers of Young Adult Fiction.  Meanwhile, if you've missed any episodes from our first eight seasons, now is the...

Just as the second wave of coronavirus seems to be getting under way here in Spain, where I live, an alarming increase in positive cases is also taking place where I grew up in Indiana. This conversation with Wayne County Health Officer Dr. David Jetmore is an effort to get the facts out, and to…

Already from a very young age, Derick considered himself an artist. He used to tell everyone around him about his dreams of making it in the art world. However, as Derick got serious about his future in the arts, his relatives expressed concern, which in turn planted the seeds of doubt and made him second…

If there is one thing you should know about Casey, it’s that her feelings about art conservation run deep. She is the Objects Conservator at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT, where she oversees a highly diverse collection. She is well aware of the fact that, whenever a piece is treated upon…

Mid-career, an artist discovers that she’s more excited about spending time exploring other people’s artwork than in creating her own.

Visit her websites: www.culturalheritage.org, www.caseymallinckrodt.com, www.thewadsworth.org/

Casey Mallinckrodt is the Objects Conservator at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut. She has a master’s degree from the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials, and an MFA in sculpture from Yale Univers