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’ Kimberly King Parsons discusses her debut novel, ‘We Were the Universe’ (out now in hardcover from Knopf and available in paperback from Vintage Books this June, 2025). -
In this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Linda Holmes, one of the hosts of NPR’s ‘Pop Culture Happy Hour’ podcast and the author of ‘Back After This’ (Ballantine Books). -
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with writer and translator Laura Marris, author of ‘The Age of Loneliness’ (Graywolf Press). -
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe, author of ‘Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis’ (Doubleday). -
Host Lauren Korn sits down with Los Angeles-based filmmaker Marshall Granger to talk about ‘Your Opinion, Please!,’ a short film that celebrates public opinion and public radio. The film premieres at 22nd annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. -
Lauren Korn speaks with the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Glacier Symphony Orchestra & Chorale, John Zoltek, about an upcoming concert: ‘Scheherazade,’ one of the world’s most beloved orchestral works by Rimsky-Korsakov. -
The 22nd annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is taking place in Missoula, Montana, February 14-23, 2025 (and virtually February 17-27). Lauren Korn discusses this year’s festival with Director of Programming, Ryan Weibush. -
Novelist and journalist (and gossip queen!) Kelsey McKinney, former host of the wildly popular podcast ‘Normal Gossip,’ discusses her first book of non-fiction, ‘You Didn’t Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip.’ -
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Sarah Capdeville discusses her debut essay collection, ‘Aligning the Glacier’s Ghost: Essays on Solitude and Landscape’ (University of Mexico Press). -
In celebration of Black History Month and in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Tradition’ (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), will be a guest of the President’s Lecture Series at the University of Montana on February 6, 2025.
