First Draft - R.L. Maizes (Returns)

R.L. Maizes is the author of A Complete Fiction. Her debut novel, Other People’s Pets, won the 2021 Colorado Book Award in Fiction and was a Library Journal Best Debut of Summer/Fall 2020. She also is the author of the short story collection, We Love Anderson Cooper. Her short stories have aired on National Public Radio and can be found in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and in The Best Small Fictions 2020. Maizes’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O Magazine, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and have aired on NPR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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First Draft - R.L. Maizes (Returns) is an episode from First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing by Mitzi Rapkin.

This episode is 49:52 long.

This episode was published on Feb 23, 2026.

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