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.
Our June guest was our colleague Alma Rosa Alvarez. She’s a professor of English at Southern Oregon Unversity where she’s just ended her term as chair of the department. Alma Rosa received her PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara. At SOU, she teaches U.S. Literature with a specialty in U.S. Ethnic Literature. She loves the way literature guides students through new experiences. Her research interest is in the formation of the Chicanx canon.
Have you ever held a treasured book in your hand and worried that it might fall apart? Our April guest Sophia Bogle can help you with that. Sophia is a professional book restorer and in our interview she gave us a quick intro to what her job is all about. Sophia graduated with a BA in English from the University of Minnesota. There she also worked at the university library re-bindery. She thought she would try bookselling. It was while working at Anthony’s Bookshop that she realized that all she wanted to do was fix up the books so they could find good homes. From that wish grew 