In Conversation

(First aired September 6, 2016). Host Sheila Bender interviews Cincinnati author and editor Jack Heffron via phone and discusses his interests and career.

(First aired August 23, 2106) Host Sheila Bender interviews via phone Tucson Meg Files and discusses her writing and teaching career.

(First aired August 9, 2016). Host Sheila Bender welcomes to the KPTZ studio Port Townsend resident Gabriel Rummonds, famed ironpress printer in the U.S. and Italy and author of the memoir Fantasies and Hard Knocks.

(First aired July 26, 2016). Host Sheila Evans speaks on the phone with Seattle author and poet Priscilla Long about Crossing Over, her new collection of poems, as well her past and forthcoming work in creative nonfiction.

(first airdate: July 12, 2016). Host Sheila Bender talks in studio with Patrick J. Sullivan about journalism in a small town and his role as managing editor at the Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader.

Host Sheila Bender talks via phone with Tucson novelist Elizabeth Evans about her writing career and newest novel, “Good as Dead.”

Host Sheila Bender speaks via phone with Abigail Thomas, Woodstock, NY memoirist, novelist and painter, and discusses her writing life and her latest book, “What Comes Next and How To Like It.”

Host Sheila Bender interviews Bainbridge Island writer Wendy Hinman and talks about writing her memoir, marketing the book to a wide audience and her current project written in the voices of others.

Host Sheila Bender talks via phone with Bainbridge Island children’s author Beth Bacon about her writing, awards and the ways in which she has found surprises along the way.

Host Sheila Bender speaks via phone with Tucson author Beth Alvarado about her work and publishing in the genres of memoir, fiction and creative nonfiction.