Ori Gutin, courtesy of the author

Ori Gutin on Having a Sense that What You Do Every Day Has Some Greater Meaning than Just Your Own Human Existence

An interview with Ori Gutin from The Write Stuff series: Ori Gutin is an up and coming picture book author who just released his debut title, The Butterfly Who Flew…

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Shelley Wong on Keeping it Real and Being Kind

Shelley Wong on Keeping it Real and Being Kind

An interview with Shelley Wong from The Write Stuff series: Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, 2022), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize,…

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Ashley Reynolds on Never Being Limited by Identity

Ashley Reynolds on Never Being Limited by Identity

An interview with Ashley Reynolds from The Write Stuff series: When people ask what do you do, you tell them…? When people ask what I do I first tell…

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Paul Signorelli on Civility Serving as a Foundation of Discourse

Paul Signorelli on Civility Serving as a Foundation of Discourse

An interview with Paul Signorelli from The Write Stuff series: Paul Signorelli is a San Francisco-based writer-trainer-presenter-consultant. He focuses on innovations in lifelong learning, community partnerships and activism/advocacy, and…

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Patrick Earl Ryan on Seeing Yourself Not Only as a Victim, but as a Perpetrator of Harm and Hurt, Too

Patrick Earl Ryan on Seeing Yourself Not Only as a Victim, but as a Perpetrator of Harm and Hurt, Too

An interview with Patrick Earl Ryan from The Write Stuff series: Patrick Earl Ryan was born and raised in New Orleans and lives in San Francisco. He is the…

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Brian Lucas on Unlocking a Secret Code to a Bountiful and Utopian “Nowhere”

Brian Lucas on Unlocking a Secret Code to a Bountiful and Utopian “Nowhere”

An interview with Brian Lucas from The Write Stuff series: Brian Lucas lives in Oakland, CA. His most recent book is Now Land (ink drawings with an accompanying CD of music),…

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Nicholas James Whittington on Finding Time and Space to Visit that Place Called Poetry

Nicholas James Whittington on Finding Time and Space to Visit that Place Called Poetry

An interview with Nicholas James Whittington from The Write Stuff series: Nicholas James Whittington is a poet, scholar, educator, editor, printer, publisher and father living in Oakland, CA since…

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Jennifer Hasegawa

Jennifer Hasegawa on the Light Shining Out from Our Navels

An interview with Jennifer Hasegawa from The Write Stuff series: Jennifer Hasegawa is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet who has sold funeral insurance door-to-door and had her suitcase stolen from…

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Patrick James Dunagan courtesy of the author

Patrick James Dunagan on Happenings without any Expectation or Presumption of Reward

An interview with Patrick James Dunagan from The Write Stuff series: Patrick James Dunagan lives in San Francisco and works at Gleeson Library for the University of San Francisco….

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Mary Ladd courtesy of the author

Mary Ladd on Holding Found Items at Arms Length

An interview with Mary Ladd from The Write Stuff series: Mary Ladd’s The Wig Diaries is an irreverent cancer book that pokes fun at diagnosis, treatment, medical bills and beyond. It is…

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