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Jay Allison is an independent journalist and leader in public broadcasting. He produces The Moth Radio Hour, and has created hundreds of doc...
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Bliss Broyard is the author of the bestselling story collection My Father, Dancing, which was a New York Times Notable book, and the memoir,...
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Sean Corcoran is the managing editor for news at WCAI and WGBH Radio. He is a graduate of George Washington University and the Columbia Univ...
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Nancy Slonim Aronie is the author of Writing From the Heart: Finding Your Inner Voice (Hyperion/Little, Brown) and the founder of the Chilma...
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Novelist, short story writer, and playwright LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s debut novel, Jam on the Vine (Grove Atlantic, 2015), was an Editor’s...
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Fred Barron wrote and executive-produced Sessions with Billy Crystal, executive-produced Seinfeld, created Caroline in the City, and wrote t...
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Geraldine Brooks is the New York Times bestselling author of Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book, March (winner of th...
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Callie Crossley is the host of Under the Radar with Callie Crossley, which airs on Sunday evenings on WGBH. Her weekly commentaries air Mond...
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Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondro...
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Michael Ditchfield is the author of five famously unpublished novels. He lives on Martha’s Vineyard with three chickens, a dog, his wife, hi...