Authors Unbound

Joel Minor is the curator of Modern Literature and Manuscripts at Washington University Libraries in St. Louis, where he has worked since 2012. Previously an archivist at the Southwestern Writers Collection at Texas State University and at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Minor has built his career around preserving and illuminating the lives behind significant works of...

Tomas Unger is a poet, teacher, and critic whose writing moves between poetry, visual art, and the spaces where the two meet. His essays and poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review , The Paris Review , The New York Review of Books , and The Yale Review . In his writing, Unger is drawn to the ordinary object, the unexpected encounter, and the quiet mystery contained within moments of attention...

Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English, Emeritus, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the longtime former editor-in-chief of the Southwest Review . The author of numerous books on English and American poetry, as well as two volumes of personal essays, Spiegelman has spent a career writing about literature, art, music, and the ways culture shapes our understanding of ourse...

Howard Altmann is an internationally acclaimed poet whose work has been translated into Portuguese, Hebrew, and German, with original collections published around the world alongside his English-language books. A frequent contributor to The Guardian 's celebrated "Poem of the Week" series, his poetry has appeared in The Atlantic , Best American Poetry , Poetry , TLS , and numerous ot...

Christian Bancroft is an acclaimed poet, scholar, and editor whose work bridges creative writing, literary criticism, and archival research. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Houston and is the recipient of a Michener Fellowship. He is the author of Queering Modernist Translation: The Poetics of Race, Gender, and Queerness and the co-editor of Adelaide Crapsey: The Life & Work of a...

Angie Estes is an acclaimed American poet whose work is celebrated for its luminous language, intricate musicality, and remarkable ability to weave together art, history, memory, and desire. Across more than three decades, her poetry has explored the ways beauty, spirituality, and human experience intersect, creating poems that feel at once intellectually expansive and deeply intimate. She is the...

David Wojahn is an acclaimed American poet, essayist, and educator whose work weaves personal memory with the larger currents of history and culture. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1953, he earned degrees from the University of Minnesota and the University of Arizona. His debut collection, Icehouse Lights , won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award and the William Carlos Williams Award, launchin...

Aimee Parkison is an acclaimed American author, educator, and innovator in experimental fiction. Her work, shaped by a deep commitment to exploring gender, violence, and the unspoken dimensions of trauma, blurs the boundaries between story and confession. Her fiction has appeared in North American Review , Bellingham Review , and Feminist Studies . A recipient of the Catherine Doctorow Innovative...

Alice Jones is a poet, physician, and psychoanalyst whose work blends art, medicine, and psychology. She is the author of seven poetry collections and, the topic of this week's episode, the forthcoming memoir Cadence of Vanishing. Her writing has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, and Best American Poetry, earning her NEA and Bread Loaf fellowships as well as multiple prizes from...

J. Allyn Rosser is an American poet, educator, and editor whose work blends wit, lyricism, and sharp observation of human experience. She has published four acclaimed poetry collections, with a fifth, Chronic Transience , forthcoming in 2025, and her poems have appeared in leading journals including The Atlantic Monthly and The Paris Review . Rosser’s career is marked by numerous honors, among the...

W. S. Di Piero is an acclaimed American poet, essayist, translator, and educator whose work is shaped by his upbringing in a working-class Italian-American neighborhood in South Philadelphia. He has published over ten poetry collections, five books of essays, and numerous translations, often drawing from both everyday speech and classical art to craft vivid, emotionally resonant work. Di Piero’s p...

Christian Gullette is a poet and editor whose work bridges the personal with the visual, blending themes of love, loss, and natural beauty through a lens shaped by both memory and place. His latest collection, Coachella Elegy , emerges from a period of deep introspection, shaped in part by the isolation and reflection of the pandemic years. What began as Beehive State eventually evolved into a mor...

Taylor Portela is a queer, nonbinary poet and performer based in Portland, Oregon. A graduate of the University of Michigan (B.A.) and Virginia Tech (M.F.A. in Creative Writing), Taylor has performed under the name Lavender Scare and has had work featured in The Adroit Journal , Fence , WUSSY Mag , and more. This week, we discuss their newest work, Tranny Muse , a hybrid poetry and prose collectio...

Armen Davoudian is an Iranian-born poet who grew up in Isfahan and currently resides in California. He is the translator of Hopscotch by Fatemeh Shams, a collection of poems by the contemporary Persian dissident poet, published in English and German. Davoudian holds an MFA from Johns Hopkins University and is a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University, where his research focuses on metanoia...

Charles is a poet, retired litigator, and visual artist. During a long mid-life illness, he started writing poems and painting — a creative turn that stuck. His poetry has since appeared in a wide range of magazines and journals, including Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac , and his artwork has been exhibited in many shows. His first poetry collection, Blue for Oceans , won the 2011 PEN New Engl...

Angie Estes is an American based poet, and professor at Ashland University. Her previous work consists of six poetry collections, most of which were nominated and or won prestigious awards; Awards such as a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America just to name a few. Angie captivates us with her unique perspective on poetry and...

Austin Segrest is a Wisconsin based author and teaches at Lawrence University. His poetry has appeared in VQR, The Common, The Yale Review, and countless other journals. He has received fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center, the NEH and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Along with this, his first book, Door to Remain, won the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize. However this week...

David Lauterstein is a key player in queer culture, who just released his first book Sodomy Gods (Unbound Edition Press, 2024). He also is known for his cutting-edge entrepreneurship by being the co-founder of the Nasty Pig brand. Through his brand he has been revered for his decades of advocacy for public health and his support for the homeless queer society.  In this episode, David Lauterstein i...

Race Bannon has been an organizer, writer, educator, speaker and activist in the LGBT, leather/kink, polyamory and HIV/STI prevention realms since 1973. He has authored two books, been published extensively, spoken to hundreds of audiences, created the world’s largest kink-friendly psychotherapist and medical referral service, but specifically were going to be following his work on his work KINK I...

Rebecca Orchant is a food writer, restaurateur, and playwright whose memoir  Simmering: A Kitchen Memoir  (Unbound Edition Press, 2024) has already become a bestseller in Provincetown, MA. Her writing has appeared in  Huffington Post ,  Saveur , and  The Provincetown Independent . She is also the co-founder of Pop+Dutch, a beloved Provincetown sandwich shop, and co-creator of the pandemic-era news...

In this episode of Authors Unbound , we celebrate the second issue of Revel , the literary journal published by Unbound Edition Press, featuring two remarkable poets, Erica Dawson and Eleanor Goodman. These poets not only contribute their stunning work to Revel but also share insights into their creative processes, their forthcoming collections, and the themes that inspire them. Meet the Poets Eri...

Tyler Mills is a poet, essayist, and educator. Her memoir  The Bomb Cloud  (Unbound Edition Press 2024) earned a  starred review in  Publishers Weekly  and was awarded a Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC Literature Award and has been excerpted in  AGNI, Brevity, Bennington Review, River Teeth,  and  The Rumpus,  and won the  Copper Nickel  Editor’s Prize in Prose.  In this episode, dive into a in...

Colin Hamilton is an American fiction writer, poet, and library creator. His latest work, The Discarded , is a collection of metafictional stories that explore the hidden world of books deemed obsolete. With a background in both writing and building cultural spaces, Hamilton's literary style is marked by his deep curiosity about what society chooses to preserve and what it lets go of. His works bl...

Welcome back to Authors Unbound ! In our season premiere, our hosts Patrick Davis, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Unbound Edition Press, and Peter Campion, Executive Editor, pull back the curtain on the often invisible processes involved in publishing. Joining them are three industry experts: Mark Young from Itasca Books Nicole Baxter from Bookmobile Mary Gannon from CLP (Community of Literary M...

David Biespiel is an American poet, novelist, and essayist.  Born in Texas, his work spans poetry and memoirs. He has established a notable presence in the literary world with his unique blend of poetry and prose. Biespiel's literary journey is marked by his deep exploration of personal and collective experiences, captured through his compelling works. His accolades include several prestigious...