Lauren Korn chats with prolific author of the American West James Lee Burke about his latest novel, ‘Every Cloak Rolled in Blood.’

Lauren Korn chats with professor of food and farming Liz Carlisle, author of ‘Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming.’

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.