In Conversation

(First airdate: March 3, 2020) Sheila speaks with Massachusetts debut novelist Mindy Pollack-Fusi about her semi-autobiographical novel The Narcissist’s Daughter: a Meshugenah Love Story.

(First airdate: February 18, 2020) Host Sheila Bender speaks with Port Townsend poet Joanne Clarkson in the KPTZ studio, and discusses how her poetry, in her words, “invokes the beauty of many things.”

(First airdate: February 4, 2020) Sheila welcomes Port Townsend actor and playwright Susan Solley to the studio to talk about creating and writing her KPTZ soap opera, The Port Ludlow Project.

(First airdate: January 21, 2020) Sheila talks with Port Angeles poet Tess Gallagher about her career in poetry and her poems, her early days learning from famous poets, and the ways she collaborates with and encourages other artists. Her newest book Is, Is Not received a 2020 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.

(First airdate: January 7, 2019) Sheila speaks in studio with Virginia Thompson about her long-term book series Family Math, its inception, and its success.

(First airdate: December 24, 2019) Host Sheila Bender speaks via phone with Christina Baldwin about her career—from teaching and writing about journalism, to work on the power of circles, to her new work of novel writing.

(First airdate: December 10, 2019) Sheila Bender talks via phone with Anderson Island poet Dianne Avey about her recent chapbook, a memoir in poems, and about her work as director of the Anderson Island Writers’ Retreat.

(First airdate: November 26, 2019) Sheila Bender talks to Toni Kennedy about her memoir, “Far from Home,” in which she explores the family life and personal attributes that led her to become a nun and then leave the order 25 years later for secular life.

(First airdate: November 3, 2019) In Conversation host Sheila Bender connects via phone with Lynda Monk, Director of the International Association for Journal Writing, about her goals for the organization and how journaling helps people heal and transform their lives.

(First airdate: October 15, 2019) Host Sheila Bender visits via phone with Oregon author Molly Tinsley to learn about her new novel Things Too Big to Name, and to gain insight into her long writing career.