The Essays of Joni B. Cole

October 2, 2023

The Essays of Joni B. Cole

‘Show, tell, reflect,’ suggests Joni B. Cole, a seven-time author and founder of The Writer’s Center of WRJ in White River Junction, Vermont. We…

August 23, 2023

If Grief Is An Elephant

If grief is an elephant, imagine how a small child might begin to encounter it: large, unfamiliar, weighty, an unwieldy mass. You might hear…

January 21, 2023

Hope and Renewal at Green Writers Press: An interview with Dede Cummings

At the end of 2022, I sat down with poet, writer and Green Writers Press publisher Dede Cummings, who also published my second book,…

November 3, 2022

Charlotte Matthews and The Half-Life of Regret

Charlotte Matthews is a poet, a writer, a University of Virginia professor, and founder of Whistle Words, a community writing project—or “womanship” as she…

September 15, 2022

Meant to Be: Author Jo Knowles’ Mission to Help Young Readers Make Sense of Their Lives

We are talking to young adult Author Jo Knowles about her two recent books, Meant To Be (Candlewick Press, 2022) and Where The Heart…

August 5, 2022

Pen Names and Personas with Trish Esden

When we first reached out to author Trish Esden about interviewing her for AuthorPods, we wavered between which of her pen names we should…

June 13, 2022

For The Love of Purple: Engaging with Author Laurie Forest

I knew I needed to talk with Laurie Forest about the relationship she’s cultivated with her readers after I attended Phoenix Books’ “most interactive…