The Tenth Voice

Authors Penny Mickelbury and Renee Bess join host Elizabeth Andersen to discuss Penny’s novel Belle City, which is an interracial, intergenerational saga of love, loss and land—and ultimately of family.

Hello everyone! Today’s show has a special holiday theme, being a friends and family show. First we will be speaking with Samantha Ruggles about her life, challenges, and successes as a transgender woman. Samantha is a friend of ours who …

On the October Trans Talk edition of The Tenth Voice, we will open the show by listening to an interview that Fiona and I conducted with the directors and one of the cast of the local production of Casa Valentina. …

On this month’s Trans Talk Edition of the Tenth Voice we’re going to have a special interview with a woman who is part of living transgender history. You’ve heard all about the issue of transgender troops in the military, well …

We have a very artistic episode of this month’s Trans Talk Edition of the Tenth Voice! We’re going to kick off the program with a special on the opera “As One.” Composed by Laura Kaminsky, with a libretto by Mark …

It’s a Noir Holiday! Authors Ann Aptaker and Stefani Deoul, as well as host Elizabeth Andersen, lead a frightfully festive tour through passion and crime in Gotham. The three books in the Cantor Gold series that we discuss are Criminal Gold, Tarnished …

Marianne K. Martin, Lisa Marie Evans, and cheryl Pletcher talked with host Elizabeth Andersen about the Legacies of Lesbian Literature project. It was a conversation on the origins of the project (Marianne and Sandra Moran were keynote speakers at the National Women’s Music Festival …

For LGBT History Month we are delighted to have Lee Lynch on the show to talk about her book “The Amazon Trail.” As an incredible bonus we also had author Jane Fletcher (who was visiting Lee) on the radio to …

For Hispanic Heritage Month we’re talking about Richard Blanco’s “The Prince of los Cocuyos.” The panelists joining host Elizabeth Andersen are Miguel Morales, Carol Rosenfeld, and MG Salazar. Note: Sandra picked this book for the show back in September 2015, …

Author Ann McMan joins Laura Nastro, Michelle Pond, and host Elizabeth Andersen to talk about her latest novel, Goldenrod. For the quirky residents of Jericho, life has as many twists and turns as a winding mountain road. This novel takes us on …

We will have a full studio for this month’s Trans Talk edition of The Tenth Voice. We’re going to begin by talking to two members of the Equal Trans Support Group, about their group and their creative fundraising efforts at the …

Host D. Rashaan Gilmore has exciting things lined up, including an interview with John Eligon, reporter for the New York Times AND a live performance from the St. Louis-based artist, MAVEN LEE aka Trent Omar Ramsey. Plus, two SHOCKING national news stories affecting …

On Trans Talk this month we’re going to be talking with a return guest in our studio – Dr. Hiten Soni, a psychiatrist who strongly supports the transgender community, about the rise in stress in LGBT people after Trump’s election. …

Ellen Hart, recently named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, joins us on the Sandra Moran Radio Book Club to discuss The Old Deep and Dark. Beth Burnett, Lora Ceperley, and Linda Wilson are the panelists along with …

Our August book is Janet Mock’s “Redefinining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More.” The panelists are Una Nowling, Samantha Ruggles, Anne Terpstra, and host Elizabeth Andersen. With unflinching honesty and moving prose, Janet Mock relays …

We are showcasing three authors who have published original and captivating novels: Jessica Webb for “Pathogen,” a medical thriller”; “RJ Samuel for An Outsider Inside,” a book about an Indian-Irish main character; and Stefani Deoul for “On a Larp,” a …

We will have two guests with us – Rhyan is a new guest to Trans Talk, and he is here to discuss his own transgender journey with us and to talk about his life. Also with us is Julie, the mother …

Host Elizabeth Andersen is thrilled to have an interview with author Heather Rose Jones who was in Kansas City this past August for the The 74th World Science Fiction Convention.

Host Elizabeth Andersen is joined by Kent Cozad, D. Rashaan Gilmore, and Eric Peterson to talk about Charles M. Blow’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” Complex people are often confident yet vulnerable, and both character traits are evident in this memoir.

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We have two guests with us in the studio today. Registered nurse Kim Tilson is here to tell us all about the 2nd Annual Trans Health Inclusion conference which is coming soon, and to talk a bit about the past …

Join us for a bonus episode of Sandra Moran’s Alphabet Soup book club. Una and Fiona Nowling will be interviewing local fantasy author, Tessa Gratton, author of many short stories, the Blood Journals and the United States of Asgard series.

We will have three guests with us on this month’s show from the Children’s Mercy Gender Pathways Clinic, who provide a full suite of beneficial services to transgender children in the Kansas City area. Dr. Jill Jacobson, Chaplain Beth Sonneville, …

We will be speaking with two guests on our show this month. Our first guest is Dr. Meredith Gray, who is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and who will discuss reproductive options for transgender persons, as well as transgender …

We have a special guest to kick our February Trans Talk show off – Christine Burns will be joining us from the UK to discuss her decades-long work for transgender rights, as well as her work as a transgender historian. …