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 speaks with Elise Atchison about her award-winning debut novel, ‘Crazy Mountain’ (Sowilo Press).
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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Kathleen McLaughlin, author of ‘Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America’s Blood Industry’ (Atria/One Signal Publishers), out now in paperback!
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In the second part of a two-part conversation, host Lauren Korn speaks with poet, farmer, and Missoula, Montana, county commissioner Josh Slotnick about his second book of poetry, ‘If Only’ (Sandyhouse Press).
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In the first part of a two-part conversation, host Lauren Korn speaks with poet, farmer, and Missoula, Montana, county commissioner Josh Slotnick about his second book of poetry, ‘If Only’ (Sandyhouse Press).
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This week, ‘The Write Question’ creator and former host, Chérie Newman, returns Montana Public Radio to talk with Lauren about her debut memoir, ‘Other People’s Pets: Critters, Careers, and Capitalism in Yellowstone Country.’
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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Alexandra Teague, author of ‘Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American Memoir’ (Oregon State University Press).
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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Emily Riddle, author of ‘The Big Melt’ (Nightwood Editions), a debut collection rooted in Nehiyaw (Cree) thought and urban millennial life events.
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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ just in time for the holidays, “piecast” host Lauren Korn speaks with “pie lady” Kate Lebo, author of the cookbook ‘Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour & Butter’ (Sasquatch Books).
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‘Front Row Center’ co-host Lauren Korn sits down with David Edmonds, Artistic Director of Dolce Canto, to talk about their December concerts, “Caritas et Amor: Songs of Love and Hope.”
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Co-host Lauren Korn chats with the Myrna Loy’s new Executive Director, Benji Cosgrove (who is no stranger to the theater) about upcoming events and what audiences in Helena can expect in 2024.