EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today first started conjuring stories of pirates when her family hopped a freighter to Australia when she was seven. She has since grown up, traveling the globe, raising a family, and working as a receptionist, retail clerk, writing tutor, and certified nurse midwife. She also taught science and history to middle … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today grew up in Kansas City, where she had a front-row seat to the demographic shifts, the hope, and the turmoil of the civil rights era of the 1960s. She has a bachelor’s degree in urban studies from Washington University in Saint Louis, where she developed a passion for how cities … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today was about to retire from her Spanish-teaching position at Oakland California’s Mills College when her genealogical research uncovered a Gestapo record mentioning a relative, Clara Philipsborn, the only woman anti-fascist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. The few details of the report led to more research, which led to her … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today believes life is an opportunity to learn and grow. She is a best-selling author of Beyond the Bookclub: We are the Books We Must Read, Acting Lessons for Living, and its accompanying Guided Journal. Her other professional roles include facilitating growth as a body-centered psychotherapist and coach and certified hypnotherapist. … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is an international author, former member of the military, and world traveler. He writes science fiction, action-adventure, and historical fiction. Welcome to Authors Over 50, J.W. Orchard. EPISODE NOTES J.W. Orchard’s Website J.W. Orchard’s Twitter
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today majored in English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and worked in the technology sector in an administrative capacity. For fifteen years, she and her husband owned a professional photography studio. She has dedicated the last sixteen years to developing her craft of fiction writing and is also regularly … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today was born in Portland, Maine and shortly after graduation in 1973, he moved to Boston and began writing in earnest. He has three adult children and currently lives in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He works as a housing counselor for a non-profit agency. During Covid and still, he helps prevent people from … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is a first mother and a late discovery step-adoptee. She grew up in rural Central Minnesota with no running water or electricity, and by the time she graduated from high school, she’d learned books were an oasis and her guitar a good friend. After earning a Social Work degree, she … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is the author of Scattered Lights, a collection of short stories that was a finalist for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award in Fiction. He also has written three historical novels: The Language of Trees, This Old World, and Slant of Light. The fourth novel in that series will be coming out … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today grew up in Great Neck, New York. She attended college and law school at Yale. For many years, she practiced as an appellate attorney with a public defender’s office before turning to writing full time. She studied at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, and her work has been … Read More
