Between the Pages of WELL READ Magazine

INSIDE VOICES with Emily Carpenter

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Emily Carpenter
Emily Carpenter is the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of suspense novels, Burying the Honeysuckle Girls, The Weight of Lies, and Every Single Secret. After graduating from Auburn with a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication, she moved to New York City. She’s worked as an actor, producer, screenwriter, and behind-the-scenes soap opera assistant for the CBS shows, As the World Turns and Guiding Light. Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, she now lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her family. 
 
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INSIDE VOICES with Shastri Akella

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Shastri Akella
Shastri Akella’s debut novel, The Sea Elephants, was published by Flatiron Books in the USA and Canada and by Penguin in India. He was a writing resident at the Fine Arts Works Center and the Oak Springs Garden Foundation. He is the winner of the 2022 FracturedLit Flash Fiction Contest and the 2023 Best Microfiction Contest. His writing has appeared in Guernica, Fairy Tale Review, CRAFT, The Masters Review, Electric Literature, World Literature Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Most recently, his story The Magic Bangle was included in The Best American Short Stories 2024, which was edited by Lauren Groff. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing and PhD. in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He’s currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Michigan State University.
 
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INSIDE VOICES with Mary Martha Greene

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview The Biscuit Queen!
Mary Martha Greene is a South Carolina native and government relations consultant who perfected her entertaining skills for making friends and engaging clients during her forty-year career. She divides her time between Beaufort and Columbia, SC. She is the author of the bestselling book, The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All and the sequel, The Cheese Biscuit Queen, Kiss My Aspic!: Southern Recipes, Saucy Stories, and More Rambunctious Behavior.
 
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INSIDE VOICES with Kalela Williams

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview Kalela Williams Kalela Williams is an author, a proud auntie, a cat mama, and a "Black History Maven." She is the Director of the Virginia Center for the Book and directs the Virginia Festival of the Book and other events. She has created and produced literary events for the Philadelphia library system, a youth writing non-profit, a university poetry center, and other institutions. Kalela grew up in Atlanta, but now she calls the cute, artsy town of Staunton, Virginia home, where she and her partner run a community arts organization, The Off Center. Her debut novel Tangleroot is an American Booksellers Association Indies Introduce and an Indie Next Pick, a Junior Library Guild Selection, and one of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2024.
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INSIDE VOICES with Kimberly Brock

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Kimberly Brock
 
Kimberly Brock is the bestselling author of The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare, which was shortlisted for the prestigious Townsend Prize for Fiction, and The River Witch, recipient of the Georgia Author of the Year Award. She is the founder of Tinderbox Writers Workshop and has served as a guest lecturer for many regional and national writing workshops including at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. A native of North Georgia, she now lives near Atlanta. Her latest novel, The Fabled Earth, releases October 1, 2024 via Harper Muse.
 
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INSIDE VOICES with Federico Eribia

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview Federico Eribia
Federico Erebia received the 2024 Lambda Literary Exceptional New Writer Award. His debut novel, Pedro & Daniel, follows two gay, neurodivergent, Mexican American brothers, over a twenty-four year span, who experience joy and laughter, despite years of abuse and oppression.  Pedro & Daniel has won numerous awards, starred reviews, and other accolades, including Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and Bank Street. It was a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award and is long listed for the Massachusetts Book Award. Federico is on the SCBWI Impact & Legacy Fund’s steering committee, the board of Read Your World, Inc., and is a state leader for Authors Against Book Bans. He is a member of various other writing groups. 
Federico is also a retired physician, woodworker, poet, and illustrator. He enjoys the intersections of his gay, neurodivergent, and Mexican American identities. He and his husband live near Boston, Massachusetts.
 
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INSIDE VOICES with James Wade

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce James Wade
 
James Wade is the award-winning author of Beasts of the Earth, All Things Left Wild, and River, Sing Out. He is the youngest novelist to win two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, and the recipient of the MPIBA’s prestigious Reading the West Award. James’s work has appeared in Southern Literary Magazine, The Bitter Oleander, Writers’ Digest, and numerous additional publications. James lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country with his wife and children. His forthcoming novel, Hollow Out the Dark, releases August 20, 2024.

INSIDE VOICES with Piper G. Huguley

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Piper G. Huguley
Piper G. Huguley’s biographical historical fiction, By Her Own Design: a novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register (William Morrow Publishing) tells the inspiring story of the Black fashion designer of Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress. By Her Own Design was a Booklist top 100 Editor’s Choice selection for 2022 and was named one of the top 100 books of 2022 in Canada by the Globe and Mail newspaper.
She is also the author of Sweet Tea by Hallmark Publishing and the author of two historical romance series: “Migrations of the Heart”, about the Great Migration and “Home to Milford College”. Her next historical fiction book, American Daughters (2024), is the story of the decades-long interracial friendship between Alice Roosevelt and Portia Washington, the rebel teenage daughters of President Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington, respectively. She is a literature professor at Clark-Atlanta University and blogs about the history behind her novels at http://piperhuguley.com. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and son.

INSIDE VOICES with Mimi Herman

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Mimi Herman.
Mimi Herman is a Kennedy Center teaching artist and codirector of Writeaways writing workshops in France, Italy, Ireland, and New Mexico. She serves as vice-chair of the Board of Directors for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and has taught in the Masters of Education programs at Lesley University, served as the North Carolina Piedmont Laureate and been an associate editor for Teaching Artist Journal. Since 1990, she has engaged over 25,000 students and teachers with her warm and intuitive teaching style. Her novel, The Kudzu Queen, was selected by the North Carolina Center for the Book for the 2023 Library of Congress “Great Reads from Great Places” and has been longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.

INSIDE VOICES with Curtis Chin

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Curtis Chin A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the non-profits’ first Executive Director. He went on to write for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at over 600 venues in twenty countries. He has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press and the Emancipator Boston Globe. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Chin has received awards from ABC Disney Television, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and more. His memoir, "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" was published by Little, Brown in Fall 2023. His essay in Bon Appetit was selected for Best Food Writing in America 2023.