The Purpose Tree

A talk with author Michael Chin about wrestling and writing. Get his new book Territories at BookShop.org https://bookshop.org/a/109691/9781947175655

Michael Chin was born and raised in Utica, New York and currently lives in Las Vegas with his wife and son, where he teaches for the UNLV Honors College. He’s the author of seven full-length books, including his novel, My Grandfather’s an Immigrant, and So is Yours (Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2021) and speculative short story collection, This Year’s Ghost (JackLeg Press, 2025). Chin won the 2017-2018 Jean Leiby Chapbook Award from The Florida Review as well as Bayou Magazine’s 2014 James Knudsen Prize for Fiction. Find him online at miketchin.com.

A talk with Canadian author Angel Dionne about her writing process, surrealism, all her books, and her most recent book Bird Ornaments.

Find the new book here: https://bookshop.org/a/109024/9781965412022

Learn more about her work: https://angeldionne4.weebly.com/publications.html

A talk with Ann Calandro, the fascinating artist and writer of the new fiction collection Lost in Words, available here: https://bookshop.org/a/109691/9781947175709

Ann Calandro is a writer, mixed media collage artist, and classical piano student. For many years she worked as a copyeditor in medical publishing, medical communications, and pharmaceutical advertising. Her fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have been published in literary journals and anthologies. Her artwork has appeared in juried exhibits and literary journals. Shanti Arts Press published three children’s books that she wrote and illustrated. Calandro, who was born and raised in New York City, received a master’s degree in English from Washington University in St Louis. See artwork at ann-calandro.pixels.com

A talk with California poet Mariam Ahmed about her new collection Hidden Parts (Broken Tribe Press, 2025).

The collection can be found here: https://bookshop.org/a/109024/9781965412275

Learn more about Mariam here:

https://www.brokentribepress.com/mariam-ahmed

A discussion with American scholar Howard Tinberg on his 40+ years of teaching composition, writing and research about college writing, his favorite assignment, composition trends, ai and the future of college writing, the importance of community colleges, and his continuing research on community colleges.

A talk with author and artist Eugene Datta about his life, his writing, and his latest literary short fiction collection The Color of Noon.

Diana Senechal returns for a new talk about her book, SOLO CONCERT. This is Diana's debut poetry collection, which consists of many poems previously published in a variety of journals, along with some new gems. We talked about her creative process and what went into this project.

Buy the book on bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/109691/9781947175631

Learn about her other works:

https://dianasenechal.com

Dr. Bill's retelling of Plato's Allegory of the Cave.

BONUS EPISODE: A tribute to the late poet William Zander.

Dr. Bill reads two of his poems Winter Trees and Coming of Green.

Part II with Susan Tekulve. This time we discuss her new poetry book Bodies of Light. The podcast season 1 comes full circle back to one of our early guests, as Serving House Books also circles back to the author of its first full-length book publication.

Buy the book here:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/bodies-of-light-susan-tekulve/22032050?ean=9781947175617

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bodies-of-light-susan-tekulve/1146544586

https://www.amazon.com/Bodies-Light-Susan-Tekulve/dp/1947175610