It was great to sit with my friend Andy Mozina at H House and talk about writing and the writing life on the eve of his retirement from teaching at K College. He's quite funny!

Born and raised in Milwaukee, Andy Mozina majored in economics at Northwestern, then dropped out of Harvard Law School to study literature and write. He’s published fiction in Tin House, Ecotone, McSweeney’s, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. His first story collection, The Women Were Leaving the Men, won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. Quality Snacks, his second collection, was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Prize. His first novel, Contrary Motion, was published by Spiegel & Grau/Penguin Random House. His fiction has received special citations in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize, and New Stories from the Midwest.

What a pleasure to spend an hour talking with Kathi McGookey, a prose poet, introvert, mom, and all around great Michigan person. Here's her official bio: Kathleen McGookey has published five books and fourchapbooks of prose poems, most recently Paper Sky (Press 53) and Cloud Reports (Celery City Chapbooks). Her work hasappeared recently in journals including Copper Nickel, Epoch, Field, Los Angeles Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Southern Review. It has also been featured on American Life in Poetry, Poetry Daily, and SWWIM Every Day. She lives in Middleville, Michigan.

Great to chat with Dawn at H House about writing, teaching, baking and living. Dawn talks about religious trauma, Indiana life, and her new book, A GREEN GLOW ON THE HORIZON: TALES FROM THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TOURIST ATTRACTION SURVIVORS.