UIndy’s Potluck Podcast: Season 7
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UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – SEASON 7 – EPISODE 1 – Hannah V Warren
This is UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts. Etchings Press, a student-run publisher at University of Indianapolis, awards The Whirling Prize to a book each year that demonstrates an excellent and compelling response to a theme selected by students. The 2024 theme celebrated debut authors, and in this episode, the student judges in ENGL 479, Anastasia Wolfe, Chandler Ferrer, and Steve Polson, have a conversation with poet Hannah V Warren, author of the winning poetry collection, Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales. A big thank you to Undy Music major Bailee Coop and Prof. Brett Leonard for editing this episode.
Hannah V Warren is a poet, storyteller, and speculative literature scholar from Mississippi. Her debut poetry collection is Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales, and she is also the author of two poetry chapbooks: Southern Gothic Corpse Machine and [re]construction of the necromancer. Among other journals, her works have found homes in Gulf Coast, Fairy Tale Review, The Pinch, THRUSH, Passages North, Crazyhorse, Southeast Review, and Mid-American Review.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – SEASON 7 – EPISODE 2 – Nathan Newman
This is UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts. Etchings Press, a student-run publisher at University of Indianapolis, awards The Whirling Prize to a book each year that demonstrates an excellent and compelling response to a theme selected by students. The 2024 theme celebrated debut authors, and in this episode, the student judges in ENGL 479, Anastasia Wolfe, Chandler Ferrer, and Steve Polson, have a conversation with debut novelist Nathan Newman, author of the winning novel, How to Leave the House. A big thank you to Undy Music major Carlos Jefferson for editing this episode.
Nathan Newman is a writer and filmmaker based in London. Their short stories have won awards including the James Knudsen Prize for Fiction, and they have been published in literary journals in the US and several anthologies in the UK. Their debut novel, How to Leave the House, was released in 2024. As well as writing, Newman works as an usher at a cinema.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – SEASON 7 – EPISODE 3 – Beth Nguyen
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students, Piper Parks, Ben Redar, and Eric Binder, interview writer, Beth Nguyen, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. A big thank you to Undy Music major Philip Kegbeh and Prof. Brett Leonard for editing this episode.
Beth Nguyen is the author of four books, most recently the memoir Owner of a Lonely Heart, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice pick and named a best book of 2023 by NPR, Time, Oprah Daily, and BookPage. Nguyen’s previous books are the memoir Stealing Buddha’s Dinner and the novels Short Girls and Pioneer Girl. Her awards and honors include a Guggenheim. Nguyen is currently a professor in the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – SEASON 7 – EPISODE 4 – Gina Chung
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students, Emma Bond, Ella Harner, and Chandler Ferrer, interview writer, Gina Chung, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. A big thank you to Undy Music majors John Ray and Gabriel Bynoe with Prof. Brett Leonard for editing this episode.
Gina Chung is the author of the award-winning novel Sea Change. This year, her short story collection Green Frog, was named Good Morning America’s Book Buzz Pick. Chung is a faculty member of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program at Lasell University.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – SEASON 7 – EPISODE 5 – April Gibson
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students, Piper Parks, Madison Riley, and Camille Dobbs, interview poet, April Gibson, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. A big thank you to Undy Music major Gabriel Bynoe and Prof. Brett Leonard for editing this episode.
Poet April Gibson’s work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Rhino Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. April is a winner of The Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and a Loft Literary Center Mentor Series Award in Poetry. April is a fellow of the Poetry Incubator (Poetry Foundation), the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and The Watering Hole Poetry Retreat. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Literature, and Speech at Malcolm X College in Chicago.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – SEASON 7 – EPISODE 6 – Liz Whiteacre
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students, Eric Binder, Ella Harner, and Ben Redar interview poet, Liz Whiteacre, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. A big thank you to Undy Music major Gabriel Bynoe and Prof. Brett Leonard for editing this episode.
Liz Whiteacre’s poetry explores accident, disability, aging, and wellness. She is the author of Hit the Ground and it could account for the panic, and her poems have appeared in Wordgathering, Disability Studies Quarterly, Kaleidoscope, Breath & Shadow, Flying Island, and other publications. Whiteacre is an associate professor of English at the University of Indianapolis.
We thank you for listening to UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy’s Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast. Thank you for your support.
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