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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Vanessa A. Bee, author of the memoir ‘Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter’s Reflections on Belonging’ (Astra House).

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet and essayist Lisa Wells, author of ‘Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World’ (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet and professor Jane Wong about her debut memoir, ‘Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City’ (Tin House Books, 2023).

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with Bitterroot Salish novelist Debra Magpie Earling about her novel, ‘The Lost Journals of Sacajewea’ (Milkweed Editions).

‘The Write Question’ is celebrating Mother’s Day with writer, explorer, and life coach Steph Jagger—author of ‘Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains’ (Flatiron Books), which came out in paperback in March of 2023.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn chats with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan about ‘A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them’ (Viking Press).

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ we return to host Lauren Korn’s 2022 conversation with the current U. S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, author of ‘The Hurting Kind’ (Milkweed Editions). Note: At the time of this conversation Ada hadn’t yet been named U. S. Poet Laureate.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Prince Shakur, activist, organizer, and author of ‘When They Tell You to Be Good’ (Tin House Books).

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Bryce Andrews, author of ‘Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West’ (Mariner Books, HarperCollins).

In early March, a mini episode with writer, instructor, and landscape designer and historian Kathryn Aalto aired on MTPR. This week, we return to women nature writers: this is the full, extended conversation with Kathryn, author of ‘Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World.’

This week, TWQ host Lauren Korn joins ‘A New Angle’ host Justin Angle in his podcast studio for a conversation with environmental philosopher Christopher Preston, author of ‘Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals.’

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Lynn Melnick about her debut memoir, ‘I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton’ (University of Texas Press).

In this TWQ mini episode, host Lauren Korn speaks with writer, instructor, and landscape designer and historian Kathryn Aalto, author of ‘Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World.’

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with David Quammen, author of ‘Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus’—an in-depth, scientific look at the coronavirus pandemic that swept, and still sweeping, the globe.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ University of Montana alumna and poet Caylin Capra-Thomas chats with host Lauren Korn about her debut collection, ‘Iguana Iguana.’

Host Lauren Korn speaks with Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters, the co-editors of ‘Wanting: Women Writing About Desire,’ an anthology of essays that explores desire, its ever-changing shape—and from multiple lenses of womanhood.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Fatimah Asghar, author of ‘When We Were Sisters,’ a novel that traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with poet Charles Finn about his collaborative collection, ‘On a Benediction of Wind: Poems and Photographs from the American West,’ a collection of free verse and prose poems, paired with a black-and-white landscape photographs from the Pacific Northwest and the American Southwest taken by photographer Barbara Michelman.

In this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn sits down with author Anne “Annie” Lamott to talk about her seminal book on the craft of writing (and living), ‘Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life’ (Anchor Books), and about maintaining hope—during the writing process, yes, but also in a time of climate crisis and during political and social upheaval.

This week, we return to Lauren’s January 2022 conversation with Nathaniel Ian Miller, author of ‘The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven,’ the fictional story of Sven Ormson, a restless industrial worker who, in 1916, seeks adventure in a mining camp between mainland Norway and the North Pole.