51 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (July 2023)

N.A. Windsor is the Program Manager of the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program and the Co-Regional Advisor of the Los Angeles Region of SCBWI (Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators). In both posts, she organizes and produces writing events and conferences. In 2010 she founded the Children’s Book Writers of Los Angeles (CBW-LA.org). Through her work with CBW-LA Publications, N.A. has co-created, co-produced, and co-written Story Sprouts and Story Sprouts: Voice. You can learn more about her at: https://www.nawindsor.com/ _____________________ Annette Sisson lives in Nashville, TN, where she is a professor at Belmont University. Her poems have appeared in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Glassworks, Rust and Moth, Blue Mountain Review, Citron Review, Lascaux Review, Cider Press Review, and others. Her book of poetry, Small Fish in High Branches, was published by Glass Lyre in 2022: https://glass-lyrepress.myshopify.com/collections/full-length-collections-1/products/small-fish-in-high-branches. Her poetry chapbook, A Casting Off, was published by Finishing Line in 2019: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/a-casting-off-by-annette-sisson/. She was a Mark Strand Scholar for the 2021 Sewanee Writers’ Conference and 2020 BOAAT Fellow. She won The Porch Writers’ Collective’s 2019 poetry prize. ___________________ Brooke McKinney is a poet and writer from South Georgia. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from Valdosta State University and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. Brooke's work was a finalist in the Key West Emerging Writer’s Contest and the World’s Best Short-Short Story. Her memoir in progress, Creatures Like Us, has received scholarships to the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference, and Writers in Paradise. She is also the recipient of two Academy of American Poets Awards. _____________________ Music by: David Shaw: https://www.davidshaw.com/ Jacob Bryant: https://www.jacobbryantmusic.com/ Alicia Blue: https://aliciablue.com Special Thanks Goes to: Wild Honey Tees www.wildhoneytees.com The Crown www.thecrownbrasstown.com Mercer University Press www.mupress.org Mr. Classic’s Haberdashery www.theemanor.org Woodbridge Inn www.woodbridgeinnjasper.com The Red Phone Booth www.redphonebooth.com The host, Clifford Brooks’, The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics and Athena Departs are available everywhere books are sold. His chapbook, Exiles of Eden, is only available through my website. To find them all, please reach out to him at: [email protected] Check out his Teachable courses on thriving with autism and creative writing as a profession here: www.brooks-sessions.teachable.com