AWM Author Talks

In this episode, American Writers Museum Program Director Allison Sansone chats with renowned screenwriter and comics writer J. Michael Straczynski about his recent memoir Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Childhood . We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. Listen to more episodes here . EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS “There’s trying to dance, and there’s dancing. There’s trying to write,...

This week, Booklist editor Donna Seaman talks with Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey about her powerful new memoir Memorial Drive , which recounts the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather and the impact that moment has had on Trethewey's life and work. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. Listen to more episodes here . EP...

This week, Booklist editor Donna Seaman chats with Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage , which was a selection for Oprah’s Book Club. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. Listen to more episodes here . EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS "Prison is family separation. It’s happening on our border but it’s also happening right in our cities. Every person in prison is separated from your loved on...

This week, we are thrilled to present a discussion between award-winning poets Ross Gay and Eve L. Ewing, who talked about Gay’s recent collection The Book of Delights . We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. Listen to more episodes here . EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS “My first impulse when I have a delight, when I have something that’s delightful...I want to share it. Or I want to yell it. Deligh...

This week, AWM Program Director Allison Sansone talks with writer and disabled rights advocate Keah Brown about her essay collection The Pretty One . We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. Listen to more episodes here . EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS "What I want so badly is disabled characters who aren’t plot devices for somebody else. I want disabled characters who get angry and who get sad and wh...

This week, AWM Program Director Allison Sansone talks to award-winning poet Saeed Jones about his memoir How We Fight For Our Lives , which tells his incredible story of a young, black, gay man from the south fighting to carve out a place for himself in the world. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer.  Listen to more episodes here . EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS “If America was going to hate...

This week, AWM Program Director Allison Sansone talks to National Book Award finalist David Treuer about his book The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee , a sweeping history of Native American life from the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890 to today. This conversation was originally recorded live at the American Writers Museum. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. Listen to more episodes here . EPI...

This week, we are pleased to present a discussion between AWM Program Director Allison Sansone and graphic novelist Ngozi Ukazu about the latest installment in her popular Check Please! series. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. Listen to more episodes here .

This week we are pleased to present Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Laila Lalami, who chats with American Writers Museum President Carey Cranston about her forthcoming book Conditional Citizens . We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. Listen to more episodes here .

This week we are pleased to present writers Viet Thanh Nguyen, Kao Kalia Yang, and Vu Tran who’ll discuss their contributions to the anthology The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives . This conversation was originally recorded at the American Writers Museum. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. Listen to more episodes here .

We are thrilled and honored to launch the American Writers Museum podcast with this discussion between writers Sandra Cisneros and Fernando A. Flores, who visited the AWM in May of 2019. Flores had just published his latest novel Tears of the Trufflepig and Cisneros joined him for this event to discuss the book, their writing processes, and their experiences growing up in Mexican-American househol...