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Lidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels Thrust, The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader's Choice Award, the novel Dora: A Headcase, a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories Of Violence, and the short story collection Verge. Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice. Her new nonfiction book is Reading the Waves.
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First Draft - Sarah Chihaya
Sarah Chihaya is a book critic, essayist, and editor. Her work has appeared in The New
Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, New York magazine, The
Atlantic, and The Yale Review, among other places, and she is the co-author of The
Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism. She has taught at Princeton
University, New York University, and UC Berkeley. She is currently a contributing editor
at Los Angeles Review of Books and lives in Brooklyn. Her new book is Bibliophobia.
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First Draft - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has been writing and sharing a poem a day since
2006—a practice that especially nourished her after the death of her teenage son in
2021. Her daily poems can be found on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils, or a curated
version (with optional prompts) on her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, available with
the Ritual app. Her poetry collection Hush won the Halcyon Prize. Naked for Tea was a
finalist for the Able Muse Book Award. Her most recent collections are All the Honey
and The Unfolding. In January 2024, she became the first poet laureate for Evermore,
helping others through this platform to explore grief, bereavement, wonder, and love
through the voice of poetry. She is the co-hosts of a podcast on creative process called
Emerging Form.
This episode was recorded live at TACAW in Basalt, Colorado.
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First Draft - Alan Shapiro
Alan Shapiro was born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Shapiro has published fourteen poetry collections, including A Dress Rehearsal for the Truth; By and By; Life Pig; Reel to Reel; Night of the Republic, a finalist for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize and the National Book Award; and Old War, winner of the Ambassador Book Award.
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First Draft - David Wrobelwski
David Wroblewski is the author, most recently, of the novel Familiaris, his followup to the internationally bestselling The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle, an Oprah Book Club pick, Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, winner of the Colorado Book Award, Indie Choice Best Author Discovery award, and Midwest Bookseller Association's Choice award, in addition to being selected as one of the best books of the year by numerous magazines and newspapers.
This was recorded live at TACAW in Basalt, Colorado.
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First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, non-fiction, essay, and poetry writers. First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing highlights the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. This weekly show hosted by Mitzi Rapkin is a celebration of creative writing and the individuals who are dedicated to bringing their carefully chosen words to print as well as the impact writers have on the world we live in.