Literary Aviatrix: The Power of Story - Women in Aviation

Send us Fan Mail In this excerpt of my interview with Kathy Mexted about her book Australian Women Pilots: Amazing True Stories of Women in the Air, she introduces us to Nancy Bird Walton, who will be inducted into the Women in Aviation International Pioneer Hall of Fame in February 2023.  Did you know you can support your local independent bookshop and me by shopping through my Bookshop.org affil...

Send us Fan Mail I'm thrilled to begin a new season author interviews and to introduce Literary Aviatrix Waypoints and Aviatrix Author Notes--excerpts from my collection of interviews over the past two years. Links to all things Literary Aviatrix .  Did you know you can support your local independent bookshop and me by shopping through my Bookshop.org affiliate links on my website? If a book...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode of the Aviatrix Book Review, I talk with Lieutenant Commander Ronaqua Russell about how she found her way into Coast Guard aviation, her participation in hurricane relief efforts as an HC144 pilot (I mistakenly introduce her as an HC130 pilot at the beginning but we clear that up later), the experience of receiving the Coast Guard Air Medal at Moton Field,...

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation with Mandy Hickson, author of An Officer Not a Gentleman, she talks about her experience as a Tornado GR4 combat pilot for the British Royal Air Force and how she has translated that experience to the business world as a motivational speaker. Mandy faced many of the challenges common to women in male-dominated fields with determination and humor. She also talk...

Send us Fan Mail In this Writers' Room interview with journalist Beverly Weintraub, she talks about her writing journey, the experience of writing and publishing a book, and the details of her Pulitzer Prize-winning series on the health impacts that first responders experienced after 9-11. You can find Bev at her website: https://www.beverlyweintraub.com Instagram: @wingsofgoldbook Facebook:...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Beverly Weintraub, we talk about the stories of the first six women Naval Aviators in her book Wings of Gold. You can find Bev at her website: https://www.beverlyweintraub.com Instagram: @wingsofgoldbook Facebook: Bev Weintraub Twitter: @BevWeintraub1 LinkedIn: Beverly Weintraub Did you know you can support your local indepe...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview with Naval Aviator Becky Condon, we talk about her experiences as a military pilot and one of the first 6 women airline pilots at her company. Becky is a dedicated Aviatrix Book Club member who helped pave the way for the women who came behind her. I was grateful to both celebrate her achievements and mourn her less-that-pleasant experiences. We all owe a debt to...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode of the Aviatrix Book Review, I talk with Israeli song writer and singer, Maya Johanna, the artist behind the them songs I use on my show. As you will hear in the interview, I couldn’t believe my good fortune to find not one, but two upbeat, empowering songs with a gorgeous female voice and deeply meaningful lyrics to accompany the stories our authors share...

Send us Fan Mail Brooke Warner is an author, editor, and publisher with over two decades in the industry. She is the publisher of She Writes Press and SparkPress, President of Warner Coaching Inc., and author of Write On, Sisters!, Green-light Your Book, What's Your Book?, and three books on memoir. She is a TEDx speaker and the former Executive Editor of Seal Press. She currently sits on the...

Send us Fan Mail As a high school drop-out, I enlisted in the Coast Guard when I was 18, and was a mother, a pilot, and an O-4 before I finally decided what I was interested in studying. My experience interdicting Haitian and Cuban Migrants for over a decade made me want to understand the history and politics behind the policies I was enforcing. I finally earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Internationa...

Send us Fan Mail On the evening of September 4th, 1936 (the same year as the Bendix Air Race, highlighted in last month’s Aviatrix Book Club discussion book, Fly Girls, by Keith O’Brien), Beryl Markham took off from Abingdon, England to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo in an aircraft “the hard way” – from East to West.  Equestrienne, sailor, pilot, and best-selling author, Mary Lo...

Send us Fan Mail Biographer Mary S. Lovell shares how she gathers the human stories she shares in the 10 books she's published about fascinating historical characters, including Beryl Markham and Amelia Earhart. To stay up to date on books featuring women in aviation, sign up for the Literary Aviatrix Newsletter: https://literaryaviatrix.activehosted.com/f/1 Did you know you can support your...

Send us Fan Mail In this Aviatrix Writers’ Room discussion with award-winning journalist and NYT best-selling author, Keith O’Brien, he talks about writing and research for both historical biography and contemporary immersive narrative non-fiction, his writing life, and offers advice for aspiring and working writers. Find Keith at his website www.keithob.com . Sign up for the Literary Aviatrix New...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview with journalist and NYT best-selling author, Keith O’Brien, he shares how he was inspired to follow the trail through history to tell the stories of the women who competed in the 1936 Bendix Air Race. I was fascinated to learn about his treasure hunt to find the personal documents of the women he highlights and about why he told their tale against the backdrop of...

Send us Fan Mail In this continuation of my interview with children's and young adult non-fiction author, Ann McCallum Staats, we talk more about her writing and publishing journey, and the process and craft of collecting biographical sketches for non-fiction work. Did you know you can support your local independent bookshop and me by shopping through my Bookshop.org affiliate links on my web...

Send us Fan Mail Ann McCallum Staats is a former teacher and the author of nine non-fiction books for young readers, including The Secret Life of Math; Eat Your Science Homework: Recipes for Inquiring Minds; Women Heroes of the US Army: Remarkable Heroes from the American Revolution to Today; Thrill Seekers: 15 Remarkable Women in Extreme Sports; and her most recent book, High Flyers: 15 Inspiring...

Send us Fan Mail Myriam Huser is a Swiss-born bush pilot with her Canadian citizenship who has flown international missions that have taken her to rugged locations all over Africa and the Middle East. Her latest work has her fighting wildfires in Canada. In her memoir, They Called Me Sky Hunter, which is the Aviatrix Book Club discussion book for July 2022, she takes us on her incredible journey,...

Send us Fan Mail Ever wonder what happens in a monthly Aviatrix Book Club Discussion? Join the Los Angeles Ninety-Nines as they host our regular book club members and special guests Elizabeth Wein and Amy Goodpaster Strebe, both of whom have researched and written about the Russian women who flew in combat during WWII. Elizabeth's A THOUSAND SISTERS was paired with Kate Quinn's THE HUNTR...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview with best-selling author Kate Quinn, we talk about her historical fiction thriller, The Huntress , which is the June 2022 Aviatrix Book Club discussion book alongside the young adult non-fiction A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Women of the Soviet Union in World War II by another best-selling author, Elizabeth Wein. The Huntress is told from three perspectives, one...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview with United Airlines First Officer, dog mom, and animal rescue volunteer, Erin Mariah Murphy, she shares her aviation journey from teenager scrimping and saving her babysitting money for flight lessons all the way to international adventures as an airline pilot. She also talks about how volunteering at a local animal shelter led to adopting her quirky and lovable...

Send us Fan Mail In this Writers’ Room interview with pilot and author, Erin Mariah Murphy, she talks about the decision to work with a hybrid publisher for her picture book HALFWAY HOME, the author-artist relationship, the experience of distributing her books to fulfill direct orders, and her advice to other writers on developing their craft and publishing.   Did you know you can support your loc...

Send us Fan Mail In this Aviatrix Book Club interview for May 2022, I am joined by Dr. Cecilia Aragon, an award-winning author, airshow pilot, TED speaker, and the first Latina to earn the rank of Full Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington in its 100-year history. She’s worked with Nobel Prize winners and has taught astronauts to fly. Her innovative research, and...

Send us Fan Mail In this Aviatrix Writers' Room interview, I am joined by Dr. Cecilia Aragon, an award-winning author, airshow pilot, TED speaker, and the first Latina to earn the rank of Full Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington in its 100-year history. She’s worked with Nobel Prize winners and has taught astronauts to fly. Her innovative research, and a st...

Send us Fan Mail In this Writers’ Room Interview with author Meghan P. Browne, we talk about her writing and publication journey, to include the impact the The Writing Barn and Vermont College of Fine Arts had on her work, and the post-publication ‘slump’.  Did you know you can support your local independent bookshop and me by shopping through my Bookshop.org affiliate links on my website? If a bo...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview with Author Meghan P. Browne, we talk about her picture book DOROTHY THE BRAVE about WASP Dorothy Lucas, and her other work, INDELIBLE ANN: THE LARGER-THAN-LIFE STORY OF GOVERNOR ANN LUCAS, and THE BEES OF NOTRE DAME, scheduled for release in fall 2023. We also highlight some of the other books for young readers about the WASP, including THE FEARLESS FLIGHTS OF H...