Textual Healing with Mallory Smart

Caleb Bethea is a writer from the Southeast. He's an MFA at the University of South Carolina and works as a copywriter. The best of his time - by far - is spent with his wife and two goblins by the ocean. Catch his work in Maudlin House, HAD, Bear Creek, Twin Pies, hex, Autofocus, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter at @caleb_bethea_ Support Textual Healing with Mallory Smart by contributing to t...

Dmitry Samarov was born in Moscow, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in 1st grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn't stopped doodling since. After a false start at Parsons School of Design in New York, he graduated with a BFA in painting and printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993. Upon graduation he promptly...

Bobby Miller is a writer and filmmaker from New Jersey who lives in Los Angeles. His fiction has appeared in Maudlin House, Expat Press, and Bending Genres. His films have premiered at Sundance, SXSW, and Fantasia. He's currently working on his first novel, and yes, has a Substack you should read:  BobbyMiller. Substack.com Support Textual Healing with Mallory Smart by contributing to their tip ja...

Amy Long is the author of Codependence (2019), selected by Brian Blanchfield as the winner of CSU Poetry Center’s Essay Collection Prize. Her work has appeared in Diagram, Ninth Letter, Hayden’s Ferry Review and elsewhere, including as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2019. Intro beats by God'Aryan Support Textual Healing with Mallory Smart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pin...

J.D. O’Brien is the author of  Zig Zag from_ _Schaffner Press. It comes out in January. Description: Capri Dall has a foolproof plan to knock over the marijuana dispensary where she works. But when her boyfriend botches the heist, the two of them end up in a stolen car with a trunkful of rare high-end weed--and an unhinged security guard on their trail. Harry Robatore is a burned-out rhinestone co...

J.D. O’Brien was educated by nuns and holds a degree from the Jack Dempsey Bartending School in New York City. He edited the comedy zine Flop Sweat and his writing has appeared in Arthur Magazine , Dazed and Confused , McSweeney’s , and elsewhere. His essay on Chevy Chase was anthologized in The Lowbrow Reader Reader , published by Drag City Books. He has worked as a bartender, cold caller, dishwa...

Joseph Fasano is an American poet, novelist, and songwriter.  His novels include  The Swallows of Lunetto  (Maudlin House, 2022) and  The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing  (Platypus Press, 2020).  His books of poetry include  The Crossing  (2018),  Vincent  (2015),  Inheritance  (2014), and  Fugue for Other Hands   (2013).  His debut album of original songs,  The Wind that Knows the Way , is availab...

Lee Matthew Goldberg is the author of the novels  THE ANCESTOR ,   SLOW DOWN,   THE MENTOR from St. Martin’s Press,  THE DESIRE CARD,   ORANGE CITY ,  and the Young Adult series  RUNAWAY TRAIN  and  GRENADE BOUQUET . In this episode, he'll be reading from his book, Immoral Origins. His books are in various stages of development for film/TV. He has been published in multiple languages and nominated...

This is a special edition episode where I am joined by C.E. Hoffman to talk about Taylor Swift's new album, Midnights . We geek out about our favorite tracks, dive deep into how Taylor has grown as an artist, admit that neither of us were "swifties", and attempt to figure out what kind of literature Taylor Swift might be into. For those who don't know C.E. Hoffman: C.E. Hoffman is a published writ...

Mason Parker is an Okie-born, Montana-based writer. He holds an MS in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana. His work has been featured in X-R-A-Y, Hobart, the International Journal of Wilderness, and BULL Men’s Fiction. In his free time, he enjoys exploring the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness with his partner and two dogs. He just released the collection, Until the Red Swallows It All...

Hillary Leftwich is the founder and owner of ☿ Alchemy Author Services & Writing Worksho p and Community Coven, a community-based workshop. She lives in Denver where she hosts/organizes At the Inkwell Denver , a literary reading series focusing on providing a liberated space for writers. Hillary focuses her writing on class struggle, single motherhood, trauma, mental illness, the supernatural,...

Ravi Mangla is the author of   The Observant  (Spuyten Duyvil) and   Understudies  (Outpost19). His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, Jacobin, The Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Salon, The Paris Review Daily, Quarterly West, American Short Fiction, Tin House Online, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Rochester, NY. Intro beats by God’Aryan Supp...

Ravi Mangla is the author of   The Observant  (Spuyten Duyvil) and  Understudies  (Outpost19). His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, Jacobin, The Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Salon, The Paris Review Daily, Quarterly West, American Short Fiction, Tin House Online, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Rochester, NY. Support Textual Healing with M...

Jack Moody is a novelist and short story writer from wherever he happens to be at the time. He is the author of the novel Crooked Smile, the short story collection Dancing to Broken Records, and the forthcoming novella The Monotony of Everlasting, out October 1st, 2022 with Anxiety Press. He is a former staff writer for the literary magazine and podcast Brick Moon Fiction, and his work has appeare...

Jack Moody is a novelist and short story writer from wherever he happens to be at the time. He is the author of the novel Crooked Smile , the short story collection Dancing to Broken Records , and the forthcoming novella The Monotony of Everlasting , out October 1st, 2022 with Anxiety Press. He is a former staff writer for the literary magazine and podcast Brick Moon Fiction, and his work has appe...

Hillary Leftwich is the author of  Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock  (CCM Press/The Accomplices 2019). Her hybrid poetry and CNF collection,  Saint Dymphna’s Playbook , is forthcoming from PANK Books in 2023. She is the founder and owner of Alchemy Author Services & Workshop, teaches at Lighthouse Writers, and is a creative writing professor at the University of Denver and an as...

C E Hoffman (they/them) was born, gave birth, and tried to die in Edmonton, AB (not necessarily in that order.) A grant recipient, Writer’s Union of Canada member, and winner of the 2022 Defunct May Day Chapbook contest, they’ve been published widely online and in print since 2010, and edited Punk Monk Magazine since 2012.  Their #OwnVoices short story collection  SLUTS AND WHORES  is available vi...

Kevin Sampsel l is an American writer living in Portland, Oregon. He has worked at Powell's Book Store since 1998 as an events coordinator and the head of the small press section. His memoir, A Common Pornography, was published by Harper Perennial in January 2010. His latest book, I Made an Accident: Collages and Poems , just came out from Clash Books . If you want to know about Textual Healing or...

Scott Mitchel May is a writer living with his wife and son in Madison, Wisconsin. His work has appeared in Maudlin House, Rejection Letters, The Bear Creek Gazette, The Maryland Literary Review, Bending Genres, and many more. He was the winner of the 2019 Poem or Page Contest at the UW Writers' Conference in the category of Literary Fiction. His debut collection of short fiction, DeKalb, Illinois...

In this episode, we do our best to just talk about Austin’s new book and how music plays into it! But in the classic Textual Healing style, we get into very weird tangents. Cover bands. Four Lokos. Painting Nails. Taylor Swift. Fun playlist ideas. Everything.  Austin Davis is a poet and activist. He is the founder AZ Hugs For the Houseless. Austin is the author of LOTUS & THE APOCALYPSE , amon...

"Off The Record" is a new micro-segment of Textual Healing. Authors on the show get to pair some of their writing with music that they think matches it best.

Francis Daulerio is a poet and teacher from Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Arcadia University in 2014 before releasing  If & When We Wake  (Unsolicited Press 2015) and  _Please Plant This Book _  (The Head & The Hand Press 2018), both with illustrations by Scottish artist, Scott Hutchison. Francis has also released  All Is Not Lost , a collaborative v...

Nada Alic is a writer in Los Angeles. Her debut story collection BAD THOUGHTS is out July 12, 2022 (Vintage). From 2014-2016 she collaborated with artist, Andrea Nakhla on an art and fiction book series called “Future You,” featured in Urban Outfitters, Cool Hunting, The Rumpus and elsewhere. In 2019, her short story, “The Intruder” was shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize. That summer, Nada...

Bud Smith works heavy construction and lives in Jersey City, NJ. He is the author of  Teenager  (Vintage,  2022),  Double Bird  (Maudlin House, 2018),  Dust Bunny City  (Disorder Press, 2017), among others. His wife Rae Buleri is behind the illustrations in Teenager . You can find her on Instagram @ raewatch . intro beats by God'Aryan

Graham Irvin is a writer who lives in Philadelphia. He was born in North Carolina. He is the author of  Liver Mush , from   Back Patio Press . And he tweets weird things   @grahamjirvin . _ _ In this episode, we talk about his book, Liver Mush , the fact that it's a real thing that you eat, coffee, awkward social interactions, AWP, the last concerts we’ve gone to, and what our signs are. For those...