In Conversation

(First airdate: December 25, 2018) Sheila Bender interviews KPTZ’s own David Cunningham about his career as a journalist and author.

(First airdate: December 11, 2018) Sheila Bender talks via phone with California poet, novelist and Emeritus Professor Mary Mackey about her writing and her career efforts to advance environmental awareness and women’s opportunities to publish their writing.

(First airdate: November 27, 2018) In Conversation host Sheila Bender speaks via phone with Iranian-born fiction author and memoirist Nahid Rachlin to talk about her books, which include a new novella and a collection of short stories.

(First airdate: November 13, 2018) In Conversation host Sheila Bender talks with Vashon Island elementary school teacher Margie Butcher about the way she facilitates her young students in writing grant proposals for environmental awareness projects in their school and community.

(First airdate: October 30, 2018) In Conversation host Sheila Bender talkes with Seattle poet Susan Landgraf about her career in poetry.

(First airdate: October 16, 2018) In Conversation host Sheila Bender talks in studio with Port Townsend oncology therapist Tess Taft, and discusses how counseling her clients living with cancer diagnoses led her to become a writer.

(First aired: October 2, 2018) Sheila Bender talks in studio with Marrowstone Island author Rachel Fordham about writing and publishing her first romance novel and then writing two more.

(First aired September 18, 2018) Sheila Bender interviews poet and songwriter John O’Connor via phone to talk about how he turned to writing poetry at age 50, learned from the great poets, and eventually won a literary contest that included the publication of his first book of poems.

(First aired September 4, 2018) Sheila Bender speaks via phone with book-length cartoonist Ellen Forney about her recent nonfiction graphic books concerning bi-polar disorder, and her cartooning and teaching career.

(first aired August 21, 2018). Sheila Bender talks in studio with Marrowstone Island author Michael Buschmohle about writing tips and his career in helping writers create and edit effective email, speeches, blogs and more.