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,’ 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.
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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with cartoonist Navied Mahdavian, author of the graphic memoir, ‘This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America’ (Princeton Architectural Press).
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Host Lauren Korn speaks with Heather White, author of ‘One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet’ and the founder of a non-profit of the same name. Heather will be discussing both her book and her non-profit at the Missoula Public Library on December 6, 2023, at 6:30PM.
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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet D.M. Bradford, author of the collection ‘Bottom Rail on Top’ (Brick Books), a kind of archives-powered unmooring of American histories of antebellum Black life and emancipation.
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Host Lauren Korn speaks with Andrew Limbong about NPR’s interactive book list of staff favorites, “Books We Love.”
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‘Front Row Center’ co-host Lauren Korn speaks with Lummi playwright and filmmaker Kendra Mylnechuk Potter about ‘Can’t Drink Salt Water,’ which is being staged and presented by the Montana Repertory Theatre on Sunday, November 19, 2023, at 4PM.
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Co-host Lauren Korn speaks with Chris La Tray, Métis storyteller and Montana’s 11th Poet Laureate.