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Five Author Questions or 5AQ, is not your typical interview podcast. Hosts and librarians, Sandra Farag and Kevin King, attempt to delve into the minds of writers using only five questions. Hear stuff about your favorite authors you would never read in those boring trade journals and gossip rags! Each 15–30-minute episode is filled with hilarious hijinks and erudite conversation. Like, listen, and subscribe or we may send the Library Police to your home. 5AQ is presented by the Kalamazoo Pub ...
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Betsy Bird (@FuseEight) is the Collection Development Manager of Evanston Public Library. In addition to running the School Library Journal blog about children's literature A Fuse #8 Production, Betsy reviews for Kirkus and has two podcasts about kids books. Betsy is the author of the picture books Giant Dance Party and The Great Santa Stakeout, ed…
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Caitlin Horrocks is author of the story collections Life Among the Terranauts and This Is Not Your City, both New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice selections. Her novel The Vexations was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2019 by the Wall Street Journal. Her stories and essays appear in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The PEN…
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Dr. Kat Williams is a Professor of Women’s Sport History at Marshall University, and is author of The All-American Girls After the AAGPBL: How Playing Pro Ball Shaped Their Lives, and Isabel Lefty Alvarez: The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star. Through her teaching, scholarship and advocacy Kat has dedicated many years to the preser…
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Katie Zhao is a 2017 graduate of the University of Michigan with a B.A. in English and Political Science, and a 2018 Masters of Accounting at the same university. She is the author of THE DRAGON WARRIOR series (Bloomsbury Kids), HOW WE FALL APART (Bloomsbury Kids), forthcoming LAST GAMER STANDING (Scholastic), and forthcoming WINNIE ZENG series (Ra…
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M.J. will be appearing at KPL on September 28, 6:00 pm!! M. J. Kuhn is a fantasy writer by night and a mild-mannered office worker by day. She lives in the Midwest with her husband and a very spoiled cat named Thorin Oakenshield. Less than a year into her life as a full-time office-worker she began using her nights and lunch breaks to work on her f…
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Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul has adapted Stamped (For Kids), the #1 New York Times best selling children's book. She is an educator, author, and the co-founder of the Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy. Sonja is the Director of Diversity and Equity at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University and the host of The Black Cr…
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S1, E24 - Arnie Johnston and Deborah Percy
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Married writers Deborah Ann Percy (Johnston) and Arnold Johnston live in Kalamazoo and South Haven, MI. Their individually and collaboratively written plays have won over 300 productions and readings on stage, screen, and radio, as well as numerous awards and publications across the country and internationally; and they’ve written, co-written, edit…
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Emmy is an author and illustrator of children’s books. Her first book series, Nerdy Babies, is a primer for curious babies and young readers exploring an exciting range of topics, from SPACE to DINOSAURS. A former high school teacher, Emmy taught English and science in San Francisco, CA. Moving back to Michigan, she co-founded Read and Write Kalama…
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Megan Giddings' debut novel, Lakewood, was published by Amistad in 2020. It is a Michigan Notable book for 2021, was nominated for two NAACP Images Awards, was an NPR best book of 2020, a New York Magazine Best Book of 2020, and is nominated for an LA Times Book Prize. Megan is currently an assistant professor at Michigan State University and visit…
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Kristin Kobes Du Mez is Professor of History and Gender Studies at Calvin University. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. She has written for the Washington Post, NBC News, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, and The Daily Beast, and has been interv…
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Luke Epplin’s writing has appeared online in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, GQ, Slate, Salon, The Daily Beast, and The Paris Review Daily. Born and raised in rural Illinois, Luke now lives in New York City. You can purchase a signed copy of Our Team by clicking this LINK. Follow on Instagram - @fiveauthorquestions Follow on Twitter - @5AQpod Email 5…
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Liz Braswell spent her childhood reading fairy tales, catching frogs, and going on adventures in the woods with her stuffed animals. She has a degree in Egyptology from Brown University (and yes, she can write your name in hieroglyphs). After making video games for ten years Liz now writes full-time and plays video games for fun. She has written Sn…
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Wade Rouse is the internationally bestselling author of 11 books, including four memoirs and five novels, which have been translated into 20 languages and sold over a million copies worldwide. His books have been selected multiple times as Must-Reads by NBC’s Today show, featured in USA Today, The Washington Post and Chelsea Lately and chosen three…
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Michelle Nijhuis is the author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting For Life in the Age of Extinction. She is a project editor at the Atlantic and a longtime contributing editor of High Country News. Her reporting has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere, and she lives in White Salmon, Washington. For more about Michel…
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S1, E16 - Lydia Millet @ 2021 Edelweiss Bookfest!
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Episode 16 was recorded at the 2021 Edelweiss Bookfest on June 8. Over 100 attendees watched the interview via Zoom. Lydia Millet has written more than a dozen novels and story collections, often about the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. She has won awards from PEN Center USA and the American Academy of Arts and …
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Margo Rabb is the author of the novels Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize, Kissing in America, and Cures for Heartbreak; her novels have been named to multiple best-of-the-year lists, including the Amelia Bloomer Project’s List of Recommended Feminist Literature. Margo’s essays and short stories have been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, S…
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TANUJA DESAI HIDIER (thisistanuja.com) is an author/singer-songwriter and innovator of the ‘booktrack’, and was selected this year to be a Good Morning America Inspiration List headliner for ABC’s network-wide project for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2021. Her pioneering debut BORN CONFUSED, considered to be the first South As…
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Paula Yoo is an author, screenwriter, and musician. Her latest YA non-fiction book, From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement (Norton Young Readers/W.W. Norton & Co. Publication Date: April 20, 2021), is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. Her other books incl…
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Wesley Stace has published four novels, including the international bestseller Misfortune, and recently co-wrote Mark Morris’ memoir Out Loud. Since 1988, he has released many albums under the name John Wesley Harding - his most recent, 2018’s Wesley Stace’s John Wesley Harding, with the Jayhawks as his backing band - and recorded duets with, among…
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Jill Santopolo is the internationally bestselling author of Everything After, More Than Words, and The Light We Lost, which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. Her books have been translated into more than 36 languages and have been named the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Apple, and Indiebound bestseller lists. She has also wr…
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TY McCORMICK is an editor at Foreign Affairs, the magazine published by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. A former foreign correspondent in Nairobi and before that in Cairo, he has reported from more than a dozen countries in Africa and the Middle East. From 2015 to 2018, he served as Africa editor of Foreign Policy magazine, where he l…
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Walter M. Mayes is the librarian at The Girls' Middle School in Palo Alto, CA, where he has spent the last two decades sharing his lifelong passion for books. A noted expert on literature for children and teens, Walter has presented all over the country, as well as serving as a judge for numerous literary awards and prizes, among them the LA Times …
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Libby Copeland is an award-winning journalist who has written for the Washington Post, New York magazine, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and many other publications. She specializes in the intersection of science and culture. Copeland was a reporter and editor at the Post for eleven years has been a media fellow and guest lecturer and has made n…
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Anton Treuer (pronounced troy-er) is Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University and author of many books. His equity, education, and cultural work has put him on a path of service around the region, the nation, and the world. https://antontreuer.com Young Reader edition of Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask was …
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Gail Griffin was born in Detroit and raised in its suburbs and in Ann Arbor, where she reveled in literature and rock music. One of her proudest claims to fame is having seen the Beatles in concert in Detroit in 1964. She went away to school and came back to take a teaching position at Kalamazoo College, where she taught literature, writing, and wo…
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Cesar Brioso is a digital producer and former baseball editor for USA Today Sports. Aside from Havana Hardball, he is the author Last Seasons in Havana: The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball in Cuba, winner of the 2020 SABR Baseball Research Award. Follow 5AQ on Instagram - @fiveauthorquestions Email 5AQ - podcasts@kpl.gov 5AQ …
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Natalie Standiford was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and studied Russian language and literature at Brown University and in the former Soviet Union. She has written many books for children and teens, including How to Say Goodbye in Robot; The Secret Tree; and Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters. Her book reviews and essays have appeared i…
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Jerry Craft is the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the graphic novels New Kid and Class Act. New Kid was the winner of the 2020 John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature. In addition, New Kid was awarded the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature. He is also the recipient of the Coret…
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David Levithan is the author and co-author of over twenty books including the critically acclaimed and bestselling, Boy Meets Boy, Every Day, Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist, and Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (now a Netflix Series). In 2016, David won ALA’s Margaret A. Edwards Award for his significant and lasting contribution to young adult literatu…
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Jacqueline Woodson is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, children, and now adults. Woodson was the 2020 recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award and is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. Among her many other accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a three-time National Book Award finalist…
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