First Draft - Roberta Recchia
Roberta Rossella Recchia was born in Rome and lived for a time in Lille, France, where she earned a master’s degree in international relatio...
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First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, non-fiction, essay, and poetry writers. First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing highlights the voic...
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First Draft - James Salter
James Salter grew up in New York City and was a career officer and Air Force pilot until his mid-thirties, when the success of his first nov...
First Draft - Jess Row
Jess Row is the author of the novels The New Earth and Your Face in Mine as well as a collection of essays, White Flights: Race, Fiction, an...
First Draft - Richard Russo
Richard Russo is the author of 11 novels, including most recently, Under the Falls, Somebody’s Fool, Chances Are . . . , Everybody’s Fool, a...
First Draft - Michael Cunningham (Returns Again)
Michael Cunningham is a novelist, screenwriter, and educator. His novel The Hours received the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize for...
First Draft - Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Returns)
Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, multimedia artist, memoirist and novelist. Her literary and visual work has been widely published in magaz...
First Draft - Kevin Powers
Kevin Powers’ books, including The Yellow Birds, A Line in the Sand, A Shout in the Ruins and poetry collection Letter Composed During a Lul...
First Draft - Laura Dave
Laura Dave is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me, Eight Hundred Grapes and six other novels. Her books ha...
First Draft - Emeline Atwood
Emeline Atwood graduated from the Michener Center for Writers in 2023. She writes fiction and poetry and is a recipient of the Thomas T. Hoo...
First Draft - Emily Rapp Black
Emily Rapp Black is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir; The Still Point of the Turning World, which was a New York Times bestseller, Edito...
First Draft - Ben Fountain (Returns Again)
Ben Fountain’s work has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Pri...
First Draft - Zinzi Clemmons
Zinzi Clemmons was raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father. Her debut novel, What We Lose was named “Debut N...
First Draft - Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Her new short story collection is called The Typing Lady and Other Fictions. H...
First Draft - Emma Straub
Emma Straub is the New York Times-bestselling author of seven books for adults: the novels American Fantasy, This Time Tomorrow, All Adults...
First Draft - Lily King (Returns)
Lily King is the award-winning author of six novels. Her most recent novel is Heart the Lover. She has also published a collection of short...
First Draft 12th Anniversary Best Of - Ross Gay
Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jea...
First Draft - Ramona Ausubel
Ramona Ausubel is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of the novel No One Is Here Excep...
First Draft - Hafeez Lakhani
Hafeez Lakhani was born in Hyderabad, India and raised in suburban South Florida. His novel is called Abundance. His fiction and essays have...
First Draft - Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta is the bestselling author of eleven works of fiction, including Election and Little Children, both of which were made into Osca...
First Draft - Jim Newton
Jim Newton is a journalist, teacher, and author of Justice for All, Eisenhower, Worthy Fights, and Man of Tomorrow. He was at the Los Angele...