This week during ‘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 during ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren chats with devotional poet Jos Charles, author of ‘a Year & other poems,’ her third full-length collection. These poems endure, as the poet has endured, loss and devastation—California wildfires, housing insecurity, the death of loved ones.

This week, Lauren speaks with Taiwanese poet Jennifer Huang about their debut collection, ‘Return Flight.’

This week, Lauren speaks with American naturalist, outdoorsman, and best-selling author Doug Peacock about his new book of essays, ‘Was It Worth It?: A Wilderness Warrior’s Long Trail Home.’

This week Lauren chats with Renée Branum, author of ‘Defenestrate,’ a story of familial alienation and grief, of one family’s long-told lore and tightly-guarded love—told in a series of vignettes, or short chapters. Through the eyes of Marta, and twin brother Nick, ‘Defenestrate’ is the fragmented history of a family’s falling curse.

What do you get when you flood your body with the field recordings of recently extinct animals? This week during The Write Question, CAConrad, author of ‘AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration,’ talks with Lauren about their writing processes: the (soma)tic poetry rituals that result in poetry that shimmers, surprises, and sears.

This week, Lauren speaks with memoirist Danielle Geller, whose memoir, ‘Dog Flowers,’ is a book not only about her relationship to her late mother, absent for so much of her childhood, but about the strength and complexity of familial ties.

This week, Lauren speaks with Nathaniel Ian Miller, author of The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven, the fictional story of Sven Ormson, a restless industrial worker who, in 1916, seeks adventure in a mining camp between mainland Norway and the North Pole.

This week on The Write Question, Lauren talks with poet and memoirist Victoria Chang, author Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. The two explore the “a-synchronicity” of feelings and how silence can be used to both hide and protect.

In this special Sunday episode of The Write Question, the team gathers some of their favorite moments from 2021. Featuring excerpts from conversations with Caroline Patterson, Raymond Antrobus, Kerri Arsenault, Anthony W. Wood, and Stephen Graham Jones.