In Conversation

(Reprise airdate: May 14, 2019) In Conversation turns back the calendar to February 2015 to rebroadcast Sheila Bender’s interview with poets Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano, who co-authored The Daily Poet: Day-by-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice.

(First airdate: April 30, 2019) Host Sheila Bender welcomes Port Townsend resident Stewart Pugh to the KPTZ studio to discuss his recent work clearing out the books and archives of Dragon Gate Press, a 1980s Port Townsend publishing house

(First airdate: April 16, 2019) Host Sheila Bender visits in studio with recent Port Townsend resident Marcia Myers to talk about the writing and production of her three coffee table books.

(Reprise airdate: April 2, 2019) Host Sheila Bender interviews local-area poet and writing teacher Holly J. Hughes in a repeat of a broadcast that first aired in November, 2014.

(First airdate: March 19, 2019) Host Sheila Bender talks with Rashida Scholz about her Grace Bloods series, novels penned under the name Jasmine Silvera. The setting is in an alternate present-day Prague, where a mortal woman draws on the power of gods through dance in solving murders.

(First airdate: March 5, 2019) Host Sheila Bender talks via phone with former Seattle and now LA resident Constantine J. Singer about his first novel Strange Days, a science fiction story written for the Young Adult market in which as an impending alien invasion threatens Earth’s future, a 17-year-old grapples with self-doubt, loss and love.

(First airdate: February 19, 2019 Host Sheila Bender speaks via phone with Colorado poet and spiritual guide Laura Weaver about the poems in her book Luminous:  Poems and Inquiry for the Soul’s Journey.  

(First airdate: February 5, 2019) Host Sheila Bender talks by phone with California poet Kevin Clark about his poetry, career as a poet, and how he teaches new poets to write toward surprise. 

(First airdate: January 22, 2019) Host Sheila Bender travels 9000 kilometers via Skype to interview William Powers at his home in Bolivia. Powers is a Senior Fellow at the New York City-based think tank World Policy Institute, and his new book is Dispatches From The Sweet Life: One Family, Five Acres, and a Community’s Quest to Reinvent the World.

(First airdate: January 8, 2019) Host Sheila Bender talks via phone with Washington novelist Peter Donahue about his new book Three Sides Water, three short novels containing a cast of disparate characters finding their way during different decades in communities around the Olympic Peninsula.