This week on The Write Question, Lauren speaks with poets Mandy Smoker Broaddus (M.L. Smoker) and Natalie Peeterse, co-authors of ‘Thunderous,’ a graphic novel about Aiyana, a Lakota teenager trying to fit in with her high school peers, and in doing so, chooses to reject her Indigenous heritage.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren sits down (in the MTPR studios!) to chat with novelist Jamie Ford about ‘The Many Daughters of Afong Moy.’

Join host Lauren Korn in this encore broadcast of her conversation with essayist Elissa Washuta; they ‘conjure’ a conversation about pop culture parallelism and about maintaining control over one’s narrative.

This week during an encore broadcast of ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren chats with Greg M. Peters, author of ‘Our National Forests: Stories from America’s Most Important Public Lands’ (Timber Press).

This week, we revisit Lauren’s conversation with physician and writer Laura Kolbe, author of ‘Little Pharma’ (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series), a book that uses poetry as the doctor’s tool into empathy, into the interior lives of patients and beyond the material relationships between bodies.

In twelve interconnected stories, collected in ‘Come West and See,’ Loskutoff’s fiction offers startling insights into America, its wounds and perpetual conflicts.

How and when do you divest yourself from an artist? What does it mean that we were all born under a different moon? This week, we revisit Lauren Korn’s conversation with poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib.

This week during ‘The Write Question,’ we return to Cherie’s 2017 conversation with Carmen Giménez Smith, a politically aware and feminist-oriented poet, who focuses on general cultural references rather than a sentimental personal narrative in her poetry.

This week during ‘The Write Question,’ we return to Lauren’s 2021 conversation with poet, essayist, and pie lady Kate Lebo about ‘The Book of Difficult Fruit,’ a dark and funny encyclopedia-memoir-essay collection-cookbook.

In this encore broadcast, Chérie Newman speaks with novelist Chad Dundas about his debut novel, ‘Champion of the World’: Set in the world of wrestling in the 1920s, a husband and wife are set adrift in a place where everyone has something to hide and not even the fights can be taken at face value.