Interviews
Poet and Author Helen Frost
For me, still, each novel emerges from careful attention to language, including the form, the sound, and the imagery, things I first learned through poetry. Born in Brookings, South Dakota, Helen Frost grew up as one of ten children, in a supportive, close-knit family. From her earliest memories, her parents nurtured her …
Author Sarah Skilton
An Interview with the author of Bruised The heart is a muscle like any other. Tearing it down is the only way to make it stronger. – From Bruised Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, Sarah Skilton got an early start in her writing career by creating soap operas about cats. …
Artist Darla Rewers
My art keeps me balanced and practiced in transforming concept and intention into the material. It is my daily practice of manifesting that which I hold to be true and beautiful: love and healing. Growing up in Indianapolis, Darla Rewers always knew she was an artist. She also knew that she wanted …
Music Artist Dylan Fant
You can surround it with bigger venues, flashier lights, cars, and other wonderful things, but when all is said and done, all that matters is the music and the time you got to spend with your buddies performing it for anyone that cared enough to listen. A self taught musician, Dylan Fant, can’t …
Singer and Recording Artist Tamara Power-Drutis
It wasn’t so much that I decided one day to be a musician, as that I realized over time that I could never not be a musician. I have other passions in life that at times take the front seat, but music will always be there, waiting to evolve into what’s next. …
Author Naomi Benaron
An Interview with the author of Running the Rift The best advice I can give is to never let your rational mind get in your way. If you move forward one step at a time you will likely get where you want to go, and even if you don’t, the journey will teach …
Author Lauren Roedy Vaughn
An Interview with the author of OCD, The Dude and Me For all of us to heal, for the world to heal, for new ideas to emerge, we each need to be who we are. Being who we truly are is an act of bravery that flies in the face of our commodified …
John Thornburg of JAR
I approach my music as if it is my only option. A lot of the time, I truly believe it is. Music makes people happy! I love making people happy! Just getting some sort of idea or message out there is really something. In the end, it is the bigger picture that drives me. …
Artist Keith Maddy
When I view my favorite works I experience wonder anew each time. How wonderful, how creative, how amazing, how incredible, that this piece has come from someone’s imagination, through their mind and hands, and into reality. Keith Maddy was raised in Pembroke, Massachusetts as the last of 7 children. His mother’s …
Artist Mike O’Day
In my experience, every kid under age ten is fearless. As they gradually get older, they start looking over their shoulder and start worrying what other people think. I believe I have a strong connection to children because the same things appeal to us: Spiral-horned, winged Cheetalopes are awesome! Mike O’Day discovered his love of …