Literary Ashland with Miles Inada

Our December guest was Miles Inada. Miles is a Professor of Art of SOU. He teaches courses in 2D and 3D animation, comics and picture books, and digital design at Southern Oregon University. His animated work has won awards at the Atlanta Film Festival, Riverrun International Film Festival, Berkeley Video Festival, Rochester International Film Festival, and Film Fest New Haven, and has been seen at the film festivals in Tribeca, San Francisco and Basel Switzerland, among other venues.

Literary Ashland with Amy Blossom and Kristin Anderson

Our November guest were librarians Amy Blossom, former Ashland branch manager and Kristin Anderson, current manager for the Ashland, Talent and Phoenix branches. Both were in the studio to speak about the upcoming Local Author Fair on Sunday, December 8 from 12pm to 3pm. It promises to be an exciting event with author presentations all afternoon, as well as an opportunity to get a jump on your holiday shopping by supporting local authors.

Literary Ashland with Sonya Daw

Our special guest for October was Sonya Daw. Sonya a Science Writer and Editor at National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Division for the Klamath, Greater Yellowstone, and Rocky Mountain Networks. As part of her job, she edits scientific reports produced by National Park Service scientists. She also creates pamphlets and other informational shorts for the general public. She’s based in Ashland although her work covers all three networks.

Literary Ashland with Phil Busse

Our September 2019 guest was Phil Busse, author of Southern Oregon Beer: A Pioneering History. Phil an Oregon writer and publisher. Raised in Wisconsin, he graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont, and began as career as a journalist with the San Francisco Weekly. He has written for the Eugene Weekly and helped start the Portland Mercury, where he was managing editor. Busse is the executive director for the Media Institute for Social Change and is the publisher and editor for the Rogue Valley Messenger, which provides news, entertainment and reviews to southern Oregon. Southern Oregon Beer is is first book.

Literary Ashland with Molly Best Tinsley

Our August guest was Molly Best Tinsley. She taught on the civilian faculty at the United States Naval Academy for twenty years. Her previous work includes My Life with Darwin (Houghton Mifflin), Throwing Knives (Ohio State University Press), the memoir Entering the Blue Stone (Fuze Publishing), and the textbook The Creative Process (St. Martin’s). Her fiction has twice earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Sandstone Prize and the Oregon Book Award. She is also co-founder/editor of the small press, Fuze Publishing.

The literary thriller Things Too Big to Name is her latest novel. It will be released in late August.