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Author2Author
Bill Kenower, Editor-in-Chief of Author magazine, talks to writers of all genres about the books we write and the lives we lead, and how these two are one in the same.
Episodes
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Paul Harding
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding to the show. Paul is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tinkers, and Enon. He…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author Jessica Machado
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes memoirist Jessica Machado to the show. Jessica Machado is an editor at NBC News. Previously, she was a staff editor at Vox, The…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Layla Josephine
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes award-winning slam poet Layla Josephine to the show. Leyla is a performance poet, theatre maker, screenwriter, facilitator and…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Henriette Lazaridis
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Henriette Lazaridis back to the show. Henriette's debut novel, The Clover House, was a Boston Globe bestseller and a…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Lydia Millet
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes award-winning author Lydia Millet back to the show. Lydia is the author of A Children's Bible, a finalist for the National Book…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Priscilla Long
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Priscilla Long to the show. Priscilla is a Seattle-based writer of poetry, creative nonfiction, science, history, and…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Brian O'Hare
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes filmmaker and debut author Brian O'Hare to the show. Brian O’Hare is a graduate of the US Naval Academy and former US Marine…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author Erica Miner
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist, violinist, and arts lecturer Erica Miner back to the show. Former Metropolitan Opera Orchestra violinist Erica is an…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author: A Success Story
Send us Fan Mail In this special episode, your host Bill Kenower tells a short story about success, failure, parenting, and creativity. Bill is the author of…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Cheryl Klein
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes memoirist and novelist Cheryl Klein to the show. Cheryl is the author of CRYBABY (Brown Paper Press), a memoir about wanting a…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Brooke Siem
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut memoirist Brooke Siem to the show. Brooke Siem was among the first generation of teens to be medicated with…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Brian Herskowitz
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes screenwriter and novelist Brian Herskowitz to the show. Brian has worked as a writer on series such as THE LEGENDARY JOURNEY’S…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Julia Sullivan
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Julia Sullivan to the show. Julia started working on Bone Necklace more than twenty years ago, after visiting the…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Sara Bennett Wealer
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes YA novelist Sara Bennett Wealer to the show. Sara grew up in Manhattan, Kansas, where she sang in all the choirs and wrote for…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author Michel Oren
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Michael Oren to the show. Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Michael is the winner of both the Los Angeles…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Randye Kaye
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author and inspirational speaker Randye Kaye to the show. Randye harnesses the power of words in her work as a radio…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Mark A. Salter
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Mark A. Salter to the show. Like many Americans, Mark A. Salter has a deep love for football–both college and…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Andrea Barrett
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes National Book Award winner Andrea Barrett to the show. Andrea is the author of ten works of fiction, including the National Book…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Conner Habib
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes podcaster, essayist and debut novelist Conner Habib to the show. Conner the host of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, an…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Peter Gibb
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author and teacher Peter Gibb back to the show. Peter is a writer, speaker, workshop leader, coach, and musician. He is the…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Colleen M. Story
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling novelist and writing coach Colleen M Story to the show. Colleen is a novelist, freelance writer, writing coach, and…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Siena Sterling
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut author Siena Sterling to the show. Siena is an American journalist and writer living in London with her family. Before…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Pam Binder
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author and PNWA President Pam Binder to the show. An award-winning New York Times, USA Today and Amazon bestselling author, Pam…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Miranda Seymour
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling acclaimed biographer Miranda Seymour to the show. Miranda is a British biographer whose acclaimed books include…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Holly James
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Holly James to the show. Holly holds a PhD in psychology and has worked in both academia and the tech industry…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Matthew Dicks
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author and teacher, and storyteller Matthew Dicks to the show. Matthew is the author of Someday Is Today and nine other books. A…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Kate Brook
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Kate Brook to the show.Kate lives and works in London. She has a PhD in French Literature and Visual Art from…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Gary Goldstein
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist, screenwriter, playwright and journalist Gary Goldstein to the show. Gary has written more than 15 produced telefilms…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with David Winkler
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes film producer and debut memoirist David Winkler to the show. David comes from Hollywood royalty. A successful film producer of…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Jenny Mollen
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling author and actress Jennie Mollen to the show. Jenny is a writer, actor, Instagram personality and New York Times…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Susan Cushman
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist and memoirist Susan Cushman to the show. Susan is the author of five books and editor of three: the memoirs Pilgrim…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Tyson Greer and Beth Weir
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes authors Tyron Greer and Beth Weir to the show, who were two of seven contributors to the essay and poetry collection Writing…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Nancy Slonim Aronie
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author and teacher Nancy Slonim Aronie to the show. Nancy is the author of Writing from the Heart. She has been a regular…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with P. David Ebersole
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes filmmaker and debut novelist P. David Ebersole to the show. David is an award-winning independent filmmaker and television…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Connie Hertzberg Mayo
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes historical novelist Connie Hertzberg Mayo to the show. Connie grew up in Westchester County, New York, but moved to…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author With Charles Wheelan
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling author Charles Wheelan to the show. Charles is a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center at…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author With Wendelin Van Draanen
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling YA author Wendelin Van Draanen to the show. Wendelin Van Draanen has written more than thirty novels for young…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Carole Lawrence
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist Carol Lawrence to the show. Carole is an award-winning novelist, poet, composer, and playwright. In addition to…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Caitlin Barasch
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Caitlin Barasch to the show. Caitlin Barasch earned her BA from Colorado College and her MFA from New York…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Kim Dower
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes poet Kim Dower to the show. Kim, the City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood (October 2016 – October 2018), has published four…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Philip Gray
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling British suspense author Philip Gray to the show. Philip Gray, under the pseudonym of Patrick Lynch, is the coauthor…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Susan Shapiro
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Susan Shapiro to the show. Susan Shapiro freelances for the NY Times, NY Magazine, WSJ, Washington Post, L.A. Times…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Elizabeth Conte
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Elizabeth Conte to the show. Elizabeth Conte is a women’s fiction writer, “Creating beauty for the mind.” She is a writer…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Erica Ferencik
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling novelist Erica Ferencik to the show. There is nowhere on earth Erica won’t go to take you out of your head and into…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Lynn Hightower
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes suspense author Lynn Hightower to the show. Lynn is the author of numerous thrillers, including the Sonora Blair and Lena Padget…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Amy Tector
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Amy Tector to the show. Amy has spent more than 20 years plumbing the secrets squirreled away in archives —…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Emilya Naymark
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes suspense novelist Emilya Naymark to the show. Emilya is the author of the novels Hide in Place and Behind the Lie, books 1 and 2…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Jacquelyn Mitchard
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Jacquelyn Mitchard to the show. Jacquelyn's first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was published in 1996, becoming the…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Monica McGurk
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist Monica McGurk to the show. Award-winning author Monica McGurk likes nothing better than weaving complex, multi-layered…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Bernard MacLaverty
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes Irish author Bernard MacLaverty to the show. Bernard is the author of five previous collections of stories and five novels…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Andrew Lipstein
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Andrew Lipstein to the show. Andrew's first novel, Last Resort, has been receiving rave reviews prior to its…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Shawn Singleton II
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes coach and author Shawn Singleton II to the show. Shawn Singleton II is a 2021 CREA Award winner, Brainz Executive Contributor…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Jason Mott
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes award-winning novelist Jason Mott to the show. Jason is a Bestselling author, National Book Award Winner, Sir Walter Raleigh…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Gabrielle Myers
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes poet and memoirist Gabrielle Myers to the show. Gabrielle is a professor, writer, and chef. Her memoir, Hive-Mind, details her…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Farhad Dadyburjor
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist Farhad J. Dadyburjor to the show. Born and based in Mumbai, Farhad J. Dadyburjor has been an entertainment & lifestyle…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Michael Leppert
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Michael Leppert to the show. Michael Leppert is a lecturer at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, an…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Yasmin Angoe
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut thriller writer Yasmin Angoe to the show. Yasmin is a first-generation Ghanaian American from Northern Virginia where she…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Meredith Jaeger
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Meredith Jaeger to the show. Meredith is the USA Today bestselling author of The Dressmaker's Dowry, Boardwalk Summer…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Sabrina Benaim
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes slam poetry sensation Sabrina Benaim to the show. Sabrina is a poet, storyteller, and workshop facilitator. She is one of the…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Christy Hallberg
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist author Christy Hallberg to the show. Christy Alexander Hallberg is the author of the novel SEARCHING FOR JIMMY…