Lauren Korn
Host & ProducerLauren R. Korn holds an M.A. in poetry from the University of New Brunswick, where she was the recipient of the Tom Riesterer Memorial Prize and the Angela Ludan Levine Memorial Book Prize. A former bookseller and the former Director of the Montana Book Festival, she is now an Arts & Culture Producer at Montana Public Radio and the host of it’s literature-based radio program and podcast, The Write Question. She is a 2022 Fishtrap Fellow, a graduate of the 2017 Tin House Summer Workshop and the 2016 Juniper Summer Writing Institute, where she attended as a Writer of Promise. Her interviews with authors have been published in Foglifter, The Adroit Journal, The Malahat Review, and Carve Magazine; and her short book reviews have been featured in the American Bookseller Association’s IndieNext previews and on LitHub.com. She currently lives on the aboriginal territories of the Salish and Kalispel people (Missoula, Montana).
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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to the first part of a two-part conversation with Chris La Tray, Métis storyteller and Montana Poet Laureate (2023-2025). The two discuss his memoir, ‘Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home’ (Milkweed Editions). This episode originally aired November 7, 2024, under the title “What kind of society do we live in where any Indigenous people can be considered ‘landless’ in the first place?” -
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Daniel Tam-Claiborne, author of ‘Transplants’ (Regalo Press). -
This week on ‘The Write Question’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with Kimberly King Parsons, who discusses her debut novel, ‘We Were the Universe’ (out in paperback on June 24, 2025, from Vintage Books). This conversation originally aired March 6, 2025, under the title “I’m always looking for the weird thing, the tilted thing.” -
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Christine Wu, author of ‘Familial Hungers’ (Brick Books). -
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ the second half of a conversation with memoirist Melissa Febos, author of ‘The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex,’ out now from Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, which is a division of Penguin Random House. -
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ part one of a two-part conversation with memoirist Melissa Febos, author of ‘The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex,’ out now from Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, which is a division of Penguin Random House.
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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with Callan Wink, author of ‘Beartooth’ (Spiegel & Grau). This conversation originally aired January 23, 2025, under the title “There’s no end, really, or beginning to anything.” -
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Lauren Westerfield, author of ‘Depth Control: Essays and Autofictions’ (Unsolicited Press). -
‘Front Row Center’ co-host Lauren Korn speaks with Lisa Simon, owner of Missoula’s Radius Gallery, about James G. Todd, the late “scholar artist” and printmaker. -
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with ecologist Mark Easter, author of ‘The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos’ (Patagonia Books).
