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Prose, Poetry & Purpose
by March Twisdale
Prose, Poetry & Purpose is produced and hosted by March Twisdale. An hour-long show, PP&P gives March’s guest authors an opportunity to delve deeply into how they hope to inspire positive social change in the world, one reader and one listener at a time. March also maintains a blog associated with her radio show on her website: https://www.marchtwisdale.com/ppandp/
Episodes
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Andrea Stewart
Andrea Stewart is the daughter of immigrants, and was raised in a number of places across the United States. Her parents always emphasized science and education, so she spent her childhood immersed in Star Trek and odd-smelling library books. When her (admittedly ambitious) dreams of becoming a...
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Victoria Schwab
VICTORIA “V. E.” SCHWAB is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the acclaimed Shades of Magic series, the Villains series, the Cassidy Blake series and the international bestseller The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Her work has received critical acclaim,...
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Axie Oh
Axie Oh is a first generation Korean American, born in NYC and raised in New Jersey. She studied Korean history and creative writing as an undergrad at the University of California – San Diego and holds an MFA from Lesley University in Writing for Young People. Her passions include K-pop, anime,...
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Lani Forbes
Lani Forbes is the award-winning YA author of The Seventh Sun and the 2021 release, The Jade Bones. As the daughter of a librarian and an ex-drug smuggling surfer (which explains her passionate love of the ocean and books), Lani is a one-time teacher turned psychology student. Her passion is...
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Kathleen Bednar
From a young age, Kathleen empathized with storybook monsters and the creatures who lived under her bed. Drawn to the strange and unusual, her healthy obsession with history and the occult sculpted fictional worlds steeped in dark magic and ominous folklore. While working as a graphic designer…
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Akshaya Raman
Akshaya Raman fell in love with writing when she wrote her first story at the age of ten. Though she graduated from UC Davis with a degree in biology, she gave up pursuing a career in science to write books. She is a co-founder and contributor to Writer’s Block Party, a group blog about writing…
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Christina Dalcher
Christina Dalcher earned her doctorate in theoretical linguistics from Georgetown University, specializing in the phonetics of sound change. Her short stories and flash fiction appear in several journals worldwide. Novels include VOX, Master Class, and Femlandia. Christina lives in Virginia with...
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Marissa Meyer
Marissa Meyer is the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Renegades Trilogy, The Lunar Chronicles series, the Wires and Nerve graphic novels, and The Lunar Chronicles Coloring Book. Her first standalone novel, Heartless, was also a #1 New York Times bestseller. Marissa created and hosts a...
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Samantha Cook
Samantha Cook is a fantasy author of dark and twisty adventures for young adults. Her books contain a slice of magic and a questionable serving of humour, so bear that in mind before taking a bite. She's also a freelance developmental editor, a book reviewer, and an editorial assistant for…
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Connor Jordan
Connor Akio Jordan, Chief of Staff of Project RegenerationConnor is the Chief of Staff of Project Regeneration, noted environmentalist Paul Hawken's new nonprofit. He helped research and write Paul's new book, Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation, and manages the organization...
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Melissa Welliver
Melissa Welliver writes speculative fiction about how the End Of The World is never really the end of the world. After studying MA Creative Writing under Jeanette Winterson at the University of Manchester, she went on to complete Curtis Brown Creative’s Writing for Children course. Her work has...
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Carynn Bohley
Carynn Bohley is the young adult author of YA fantasy Darkness Rise (published by Darkstroke Books) and several self-published works, her most recent publication being her NA time travel romance titled Out of Time. You can find more about her books at https://carynnbohleyauthorsite.wordpress.com,...
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Jessica Brody
Jessica has written and published over seventeen novels for teens, tweens, and adults including 52 Reasons to Hate My Father, A Week of Mondays(a Texas Lone Star list selection), Addie Bell’s Shortcut to Growing, The Geography of Lost Things, Better You Than Me, The Chaos of Standing Still, In…
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Beth Jusino
Beth Jusino is an award-winning writer, editor, book publishing consultant, and unlikely pilgrim. She is the recipient of the Barbara Savage Miles From Nowhere Travel Writing Award, and two “IPPY” medals from the Independent Publishers Association. When she’s not walking on ancient trails (she’s...
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Garth Stein
Garth Stein is the internationally bestselling author of the contemporary classic, The Art of Racing the Rain. A major motion picture adaptation starring Kevin Costner, Milo Ventimiglia, and Amanda Seyfried, was release in the summer of 2019. The Art of Racing in the Rain has sold more 6 million...
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Michelle Sagara
Michelle Sagara lives in Toronto with her long-suffering husband and two sons. She is very allergic to cats, unlike many authors, and her house is a zone of chaos. With bookshelves. Her first novel was published in 1991 (Into the Darklands), and she’s continued to write novels since then.She…
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N.J. Simmonds
Fantasy author N J Simmonds began her career in glossy magazines, then went on to manage marketing campaigns for big brands before going freelance. In 2015 she co-founded online magazine The Glass House Girls and has since contributed to various online and print publications. As well as being the...
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Julie Murphy
JULIE MURPHY lives in North Texas with her husband, who loves her; her dog, who adores her; and her cats, who tolerate her. After several wonderful years in the library world, Julie now writes full-time. When she’s not writing, she can be found watching made-for-TV movies, hunting for the perfect...
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Becca Puglisi
Becca Puglisi is an international speaker, writing coach, and bestselling author of The Emotion Thesaurus and other resources for writers. Her books have sold over 600,000 copies and are available in multiple languages, are sourced by US universities, and are used by novelists, screenwriters,...
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Janni Simner
Janni Lee Simner is the author of the award-winning Bones of Faerie trilogy, as well as the standalone young adult fantasy, Thief Eyes. She’s also published four children’s books; more than 30 short stories; the script for the video game The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse; and a guest episode for the...
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James M. Nelson
James Nelson is a commercial banker, Commerical Real Estate Broker, and author of the book Stealing Home, How Artificial Intelligence Is Hijacking the American Dream. Employed in the US banking system for nearly 40 years, Mr. Nelson elected to spend much of his career financing “main-street...
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James Lyons-Weiler
Join March Twisdale as she interviews Dr. James Lyons-Weiler of The Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge on Coronavirus. Learn what you can do now to reduce the rate of spread of the coronavirus, to protect yourself, your family and your community, why we should all carry antiviral wipes…
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Betsy Bell
Betsy Bell, mother, grandmother, businesswoman, is a longtime justice activist. Publications include poems in various chapbooks and magazines; a personal essay in The Oklahoma Review, a non-fiction piece, Sex, Death and Line Dancing, in Stratus, and an opinion piece on senior living in the…
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Cathy Yardley
Since my first paid gig as a writer in 1999, I've written fun love stories. Even when I tried to write angsty, I couldn't keep the humor out -- it's hard-wired. Now I roll with it. I've been letting my geek flag fly here for a while. Some of my favorite authors are Penny Reid, Courtney Milan…
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Four Arrows
Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), aka Donald Trent Jacobs, Ph.D., Ed.D. Fielding Graduate University Born in Missouri in 1946, Four Arrows is Irish, Tsalagi and a made relative of the Oglala Lakota Medicine Horse Tiospaye. Currently a professor at Fielding Graduate University, he served as Director of...
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Sister Simone Campbell
Sister Simone Campbell has served as Executive Director of NETWORK since 2004, and is the leader of Nuns on the Bus. She is a religious leader, attorney and poet with extensive experience in public policy and advocacy for systemic change. In Washington, she lobbies on issues of economic justice,...
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Josh Tickell
Josh Tickell is a Sundance Award Winning film director, bestselling author and thought leader in the fields of youth, climate and alternative energy. In 1997, Josh’s vividly painted “Veggie Van” made headlines across the United States as it picked up used frying oil and turned it into fuel. His...
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Kevin Sheller
Kevin Sheller (aka Xane Daniel) joined me on the show, to share the inspiration behind his comic book series: Righteous! Struck with an incredible idea after lamenting the state of the world, Xane wasted no time in assembling an experienced team of artists to create his vision. A 21-year veteran…
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Dr. Ben Lynch
Benjamin Lynch, ND received his Cell and Molecular Biology, BS from the University of Washington and his doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine (ND) from Bastyr University. His passion for identifying the cause of disease directed him towards nutrigenomics and methylation dysfunction. Currently, he...
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Edward Struzik
Edward Struzik is an award-winning writer, photographer, university lecturer, and fellow at Queen’s Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen’s University in Canada.His writing regularly appears in academic journals and magazines such as Scientific American, Natural History, and Yale...
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Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott, internationally known teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer, and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education, exposes prejudice and bigotry for what it is, an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors. And if you think this...
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Walter Benn Michaels
Walter Benn Michaels is a professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He taught previously at Berkeley and at the Johns Hopkins University. He’s the author of several scholarly books on American literature and photography but has also written about politics in places like The New...
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Sarah van Gelder
Sarah van Gelder is founder of the new nonprofit, PeoplesHub, an online movement school that connects people in communities across the country with training and coaching resources needed to make a revolution where they live. Sarah is also the founding editor of YES! Magazine and author of The...
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Mark Blaxill
Mark Blaxill watched his daughter Michaela develop normally until shortly after her first birthday, when she was diagnosed with autism, in 1988. In the film, Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, you may remember that he shared: “Somewhere in the months after [MMR vaccine], she began to slip…
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Dmitry Orlov
Dmitry Orlov was born in Leningrad, USSR, into an academic family, and emigrated to the US in the mid-1970s. He holds degrees in Computer Engineering and Linguistics, and has worked in a variety of fields, including high-energy physics, Internet commerce, network security and advertising.…
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Crystal Chissell
Crystal Chissell manages engagement and research fellowships at Project Drawdown. In that role she connects individuals and organizations who share the goal of reversing global warming through collaboration. Crystal brings an interdisciplinary background in law, environmental science and business...
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David Macek
David Macek is the Executive Director of Northwest Earth Institute, a sustainability organization that provides innovative social and digital tools designed to change the way individuals live in and interact with natural and built environments. For 15 years, he has led transformation-centered...
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Lynann Politte
Lynann Politte is a promoter, director, producer, CoHousing community member, business coach, mother, grandmother, sister, activist, feminist, girlfriend and marketing strategist. She produced and directed The Vagina Monologues on Vashon in 2002 and 2003 to sold-out audiences. Subsequently she...
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Don Stuart
Don Stuart is an advocate for the economic, environmental, and political sustainability of working natural resource lands and fisheries. His 20 years of lobbying experience in state legislatures and in the U.S. Congress has informed his latest book—a mystery novel set at the Washington State...
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Christian Albrekt
This is longer than usual, but I feel it is excellently put and I hope it will evoke thoughtfulness in my listeners. A terrified people I woke up some months ago in my house in the third largest Danish city. We live in a mixed neighbourhood. My youngest child, a boy10 year old, was up already. He...
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Kate Moore
Kate Moore is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Radium Girls. A British writer based in London, she has published numerous Sunday Times bestsellers, writing across various genres including history, biography, true crime, gift and humour; her work has been translated into...
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Francesca Cavallo
Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo, creators of global bestseller book Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls, are launching a new Kickstarter campaign to bring to life Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls 2 and Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls – The Podcast. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is a...
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Mary Holland
Mary Holland is Research Scholar and Director of the Graduate Lawyering Program at NYU School of Law. She has written several law review articles and blog posts on vaccine law and policy and is the co-author and co-editor of the book Vaccine Epidemic (Skyhorse Pub. 2011 and 2012). She has…
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Bruno Kaufmann
Bruno Kaufmann is a trained political scientist, conflict researcher and journalist. He is member of the city government of Falun/Sweden, where he chairs the Democracy Council and Election Commission in Sweden [falun.se/democracy]. In 2001 Bruno Kaufmann became the first director of the…
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Bill Fletcher Jr.
Bill Fletcher Jr has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college he went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the labor movement. Over the years he has been active in workplace and community struggles as well as electoral campaigns. He has worked for several...
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Vivian Toft
"My husband and I are Brits living in southern Sweden. We have two grown children. I was a civil servant and then a teacher, teaching age groups from pre-school through to 18 years. After we retired, my husband and I moved to Sweden in 2012. We wanted a retirement involving gardening and an…
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Peternelle van Arsdale
"I'm a book editor turned young adult novelist. I still love to edit, but I've discovered that I like to make up my own stories even more than I like to fix other people's. It's less stressful. Also, I'm controlling, and I pretty much get to say what goes in the worlds that I create. I live in…
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Matthew Dickerson
Matthew Dickerson is author of fiction including both medieval historic heroic romance and also fantasy literature. He has also published works of creative narrative non-fiction, especially in the nature writing, fly-fishing, and environmental and genres. And he has written books about fantasy...
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David Zepernick
44-year old Dane with roots in Denmark, Germany and the slightly more exotic Nigerian Yoruba people. Father of three children aged 7, 11 and 16. Candidate for the Social-Liberal Party (center left) in the municipality of Frederiksberg at the upcoming local election in November. Head of...
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Katrin Oddsdottir
Katrin Oddsdóttir was one of the twenty-five elected members of the Constitution Council of Iceland, which drafted a new constitution for the country in 2011. The process of the Council has been recognized worldwide for its emphasis on democratic methods and the use of social media as a tool for...
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Prose, Poetry & Purpose is produced and hosted by March Twisdale. An hour-long show, PP&P gives March’s guest authors an opportunity to delve deeply into how they hope to inspire positive social change in the world, one reader and one listener at a time. March also maintains a blog associated with her radio show on her website: https://www.marchtwisdale.com/ppandp/
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