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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Fatimah Asghar, author of ‘When We Were Sisters,’ a novel that traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with poet Charles Finn about his collaborative collection, ‘On a Benediction of Wind: Poems and Photographs from the American West,’ a collection of free verse and prose poems, paired with a black-and-white landscape photographs from the Pacific Northwest and the American Southwest taken by photographer Barbara Michelman.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Cree (nehiyaw) novelist Jessica Johns, author of ‘Bad Cree,’ the story of Mackenzie, a young Cree woman who returns, night after night in her dreams, to a memory from before her sister Sabrina’s untimely death: a weekend at the family's lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ we’re airing a September 2022 conversation with word-lover Chrysti Smith, known to many throughout Montana and in the region as “Chrysti the Wordmsith.” This conversation was recorded live at the Missoula Public Library as part of the Montana Book Festival in 2022.

This week, we revisit Lauren’s conversation with physician and writer Laura Kolbe, author of ‘Little Pharma’ (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series), a book that uses poetry as the doctor’s tool into empathy, into the interior lives of patients and beyond the material relationships between bodies.

In twelve interconnected stories, collected in ‘Come West and See,’ Loskutoff’s fiction offers startling insights into America, its wounds and perpetual conflicts.

How and when do you divest yourself from an artist? What does it mean that we were all born under a different moon? This week, we revisit Lauren Korn’s conversation with poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib.

This week during ‘The Write Question,’ we return to Cherie’s 2017 conversation with Carmen Giménez Smith, a politically aware and feminist-oriented poet, who focuses on general cultural references rather than a sentimental personal narrative in her poetry.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren chats with the Senior Director and co-host of ‘The Moth Radio Hour,’ Meg Bowles. Bowles was one of five co-authors of ‘How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth’ (Crown Publishing Group).

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn and poet Taneum Bambrick talk about ‘Vantage’ and ‘Intimacies, Received,’ Bambrick’s two collections.