Upwelling

Mendocino historian Malcolm Macdonald discusses his recent book, The Mendocino Outlaws, and local poet Joycelyn Trigg reads from her poetry collection Vital Records .  The Mendocino Outlaws chronicles a gang of outlaws who murdered and terrorized Mendocino coastal residents in 1879 and 1880, and the heroic locals, including Doc Standley, who pursued them and brought them to trial.  Vital Records  ...

Internationally known author Jean Hegland from Season 2, reading from her book Still Time .  Still Time is a book about a man and his family coming to terms with dementia and the end of life. And Fort Bragg fiduciary Maggie Watson from Season 4, about her end-of-life planning workbook, A Graceful Farewell .

Lori Pappas and Blake More, two rebels with something to say.  Pappas reads from her inspirational memoir, The Magic of Yes, about childhood trauma, being an entrepreneur, and starting an NGO in Ethiopia. It's a book about finding the wise woman within you.  More explores the human condition with her poetry collection,  Dystopia Unplugged , a collection of searing poems and imagery that capture th...

Michelle Blackwell interviews Alyssa Ballard about her long-running video series on TikTok and YouTube, and her recent feature at the Mendocino Film Festival. Frei Barty, the Mendocino County Youth Poet Laureate, will share some of his recent work. And Maggie Watson will talk about the workbook she published that helps people prepare for the end-of-life. Upwelling brings the richness of local lite...

Two local authors David Holper and Maureen Eppstein tackle difficult subjects.  David Holper’s Church of the Very Last Chance combines political satire and magical realism.  It follows the rise of a middle-class Russian student from lost soul to international religious leader.  Maureen Eppstein’s most recent poetry collection, Daughter is memoir through poetry.  The three poems she’ll read are abo...

Phillip Zwerling’s Hollywood tell-all, In Search of the Thin Man, explores the lives and work of William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Dashiell Hammett as well as the censorship and politics of old Hollywood. Zwerling writes about how fascism in Germany infiltrated Hollywood in the 1930s. Mendocino County’s first poet laureate Devereaux Baker. Reads three new poems including the award-winning poem The Wa...

Emily Lloyd-Jones talks about her two recent releases Unspoken Magic for middle-grade readers and The Wild Huntress for young-adult readers.   Ginny Rorby discusses her recent novel Girl Under Glass for young-adult readers.  Unspoken Magic is the second title in a delightful middle-grade series set in the magical town of Aldermere.  We first met our main characters, Fin, Eddie, and Cedar in Unseen...

A twin sister disappears and resurfaces after fifteen years.  As this mystery unravels, we get to know the family, their traumas, and their relationships. Lisa Manterfield reads from her novel, All Our Lies Are True, and talks about her publishing experience.  Kailyn McCord will read from her recently published essays and talk about life and birth on the rural Mendocino coast.  

Tuomas Mäkinen is a member of a Hindu Ashram in Philo, California.  He is also a former punk rocker and an immigrant from Finland.  In his first book, he tells the story of his transition from an angst-ridden teenager to a spiritually focused monk.  Folklorist and local songwriter, Holly Tannen talks about her recent CD release and her love of traditional music.

An interview with author Norma Watkins about her novel In Common and Mendocino County 2022 Youth Laureate, Sidney Regelbrugge about her poetry and writing journey. 

An interview with award-winning author Ginny Rorby about her novel Like Dust I Rise.  Ginny chronicles a family’s struggle to capture the American Dream from the Chicago Stockyards to Texas during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.  

Daniel Coshnear, winner of a Willa Cather Fiction Award, the Novella Prize, the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize, and the Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, reads from his recently published short story collection, Separation Anxiety.  Local poet windflower reads her poetry and discusses her first poetry collection, Age Brings Them Home to Me .  

Author of Into the Forest , Jean Hegland talks about her novel, Still Time which was rereleased in France, and historian Kim Bancroft delves into her book Writing Themselves Into History which reveals the family life of Emily, Matilda, and HH Bancroft through their own writing. 

Author Tansy Chapman talks about her first novel, Rose Gray , Eco Poet Maureen Eppstein about her 2020 poetry collection Horizon Line , and two-time Emmy award-winning writer Laura Maria Censabella about her play, Paradise . Upwelling brings the richness of local literature to the airwaves.