Andrea Arnold’s writing has appeared in places like The Rumpus, The Nervous Breakdown and as scripts on Travel Channel. As an associate editor at Elephant Rock Books, she edits The Craft, a series of e-books on writing. She is also busy with edits on her novel. She has an MFA from USC and a JD from Chicago-Kent. For more info visit www.andrea-arnold.com and follow @drearnold.
Prolific author Marian Thurm talks about her new collection of stories, Today is Not Your Day, being a true New Yorker, and the importance of sympathetic characters.
Writer, musician, and poet Christian Kiefer discusses his literary influences, the "beautiful, beat up, and weird town" that is Reno, and writing from the perspective of beasts in his new novel The Animals.
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