UIndy's Potluck Podcast

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students, Piper Parks, Madison Riley, and Camille Dobbs, interview poet, April Gibson, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. A big thank you to Undy Music major Gabriel Bynoe and Prof. Brett Leonard for editing this episode.

Poet April Gibson's work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Rhino Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. April is a winner of The Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and a Loft Literary Center Mentor Series Award in Poetry. April is a fellow of the Poetry Incubator (Poetry Foundation), the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and The Watering Hole Poetry Retreat. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Literature, and Speech at Malcolm X College in Chicago. 

We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy's Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast or your favorite podcast app. Thank you for your support.

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students, Emma Bond, Ella Harner, and Chandler Ferrer, interview writer, Gina Chung, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. A big thank you to Undy Music majors John Ray and Gabriel Bynoe with Prof. Brett Leonard for editing this episode.

Gina Chung is the author of the award-winning novel Sea Change. This year, her short story collection Green Frog, was named Good Morning America’s Book Buzz Pick. Chung is a faculty member of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program at Lasell University.

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We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy's Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast. Thank you for your support.

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students, Piper Parks, Ben Redar, and Eric Binder, interview writer, Beth Nguyen, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. A big thank you to Undy Music major Philip Kegbeh and  Prof. Brett Leonard for editing this episode.

Beth Nguyen is the author of four books, most recently the memoir Owner of a Lonely Heart, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice pick and named a best book of 2023 by NPR, Time, Oprah Daily, and BookPage. Nguyen’s previous books are the memoir Stealing Buddha's Dinner and the novels Short Girls and Pioneer Girl. Her awards and honors include a Guggenheim. Nguyen is currently a professor in the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy's Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast. Thank you for your support.

This is UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts. Etchings Press, a student-run publisher at University of Indianapolis, awards The Whirling Prize to a book each year that demonstrates an excellent and compelling response to a theme selected by students. The 2024 theme celebrated debut authors, and in this episode, the student judges in ENGL 479, Anastasia Wolfe, Chandler Ferrer, and Steve Polson, have a conversation with debut novelist Nathan Newman, author of the winning novel, How to Leave the House. A big thank you to Undy Music major Carlos Jefferson for editing this episode.

Nathan Newman is a writer and filmmaker based in London. Their short stories have won awards including the James Knudsen Prize for Fiction, and they have been published in literary journals in the US and several anthologies in the UK. Their debut novel, How to Leave the House, was released in 2024. As well as writing, Newman works as an usher at a cinema.

We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy's Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast. Thank you for your support.

This is UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts. Etchings Press, a student-run publisher at University of Indianapolis, awards The Whirling Prize to a book each year that demonstrates an excellent and compelling response to a theme selected by students. The 2024 theme celebrated debut authors, and in this episode, the student judges in ENGL 479, Anastasia Wolfe, Chandler Ferrer, and Steve Polson, have a conversation with poet Hannah V Warren, author of the winning poetry collection, Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales. A big thank you to Undy Music major Bailee Coop and Prof. Brett Leonard for editing this episode.

Hannah V Warren is a poet, storyteller, and speculative literature scholar from Mississippi. Her debut poetry collection is Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales, and she is also the author of two poetry chapbooks: Southern Gothic Corpse Machine and [re]construction of the necromancer. Among other journals, her works have found homes in Gulf Coast, Fairy Tale Review, The Pinch, THRUSH, Passages North, Crazyhorse, Southeast Review, and Mid-American Review. 

We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy's Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast. Thank you for your support.

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students Emma Knaack and Griffin Cloyer interview poet, José Olivarez, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. A big thank you to UIndy Music major Gabriel Bynoe for editing this episode.

José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants, the author of Citizen Illegal and Promises of Gold, the co-author of Home Court, co-editor of BreakBeat Poets 4: LatiNEXT, and the co-host of the poetry podcast The Poetry Gods. His work has been published in the BreakBeat Poets, the Adroit Journal, the Rumpus, and other places. He earned a BA from Harvard University. Named a Debut Poet of 2018 by Poets & Writers, he is the recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo, Poets House, the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and the Conversation Literary Festival. 

We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about the Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings [dot] uindy [dot] edu [forward slash] the [hyphen] potluck [hyphen] podcast. Thank you for your support. 

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students Emma Bond and Ella Harner, with Prof. Barney Haney, interview poet, Maggie Graber, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. A big thank you to UIndy Music major Gabriel Bynoe for editing this episode.

Maggie Graber is a queer millennial poet from the Great Lakes. She is a Luminarts Cultural Foundation Fellow, a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a certified Wilderness First Responder. She currently serves as poetry editor for Yalobusha Review and lives and teaches in Oxford, Mississippi, where she earned her Ph.D. in English - Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. 

We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about the Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings [dot] uindy [dot] edu [forward slash] the [hyphen] potluck [hyphen] podcast. Thank you for your support. 

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students Emma Bond, Piper Parks, and Emma Knaack interview fiction writer, Rebecca McKanna, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. A big thank you to UIndy Music major Gabriel Bynoe for editing this episode.

Rebecca McKanna was born and raised in Iowa. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Indianapolis, and her debut novel, Don’t Forget the Girl, was published in 2023. Her short stories have been published in Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, and other publications, and recognized as distinguished in The Best American Short Stories 2019.

We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy's Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast. Thank you for your support.

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students Emma Bond, Piper Parks, and Emma Knaack interview fiction writer, Sarah Layden, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. A big thank you to UIndy Music major Gabriel Bynoe for editing this episode.

Sarah Layden is an Associate Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. She is the author of Imagine Your Life Like This, Trip Through Your Wires, and The Story I Tell Myself About Myself. Her recent nonfiction appears in The Washington Post, Poets & Writers, Salon, and The Millions.

We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy's Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast. Thank you for your support.

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students Emma Bond, Piper Parks, and Emma Knaack interview fiction writer, Brian Evenson, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. A big thank you to UIndy Music major Sean Montgomery for editing this episode.

Brian Evenson is an award-winning American academic and writer of both literary fiction and popular fiction. He’s prolific, with many works of fiction, nonfiction, and translation, most recently Good Night, Sleep Tight: Stories, which was released in 2024. Since 2016, he has taught in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts.

We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy's Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast. Thank you for your support.