Episode 10: Zahra Noorbakhsh
Feminist, Muslim, Iranian-American comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh joins us on the GrottoPod this week to talk about her love of performing onstage, politics, her relationship with her Iran-born parents -- ...
4 Apr 20171h 4min
Episode 9: Vanessa Hua
In this week's episode, Vanessa Hua -- journalist, columnist, fiction writer, and mother of 5-year-old twins -- talks about how she juggles everything, stays on top of social media and manages to be s...
28 Mar 201754min
Episode 8: Bridget Quinn
Bridget Quinn removes her co-host hat and gives us the backstory of her first book, Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art & Made History (in That Order). Born and raised in Montana, Quinn followed a no...
21 Mar 201757min
Episode 7: Ethel Rohan
Ethel Rohan published two story collections (Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone), a chapbook (Hard to Say), and a short memoir (His Heartbeat in my Hand) before releasing her first novel, The W...
14 Mar 201758min
Episode 6: Manjula Martin
How do writers get by, financially? We put that impertinent question to our colleague Manjula Martin, author of Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living. In the book, she gathers intel ...
7 Mar 201749min
Episode 5: Joshua Mohr
Joshua Mohr is the author of five novels, including Damascus (2011), which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” But he joins us in the GrottoPod to talk about why he just released a memoir, Sir...
28 Feb 20171h 3min
Episode 4: Louise Nayer
Poet, memoirist and longtime teacher Louise Nayer joins us to discuss the always-intriguing subject of memoir. In August 2016, Louise re-released Burned, the story of tragedy and rebirth in her family...
21 Feb 201750min
Episode 3: Po Bronson and Ethan Watters
Two of the three founders of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto -- Po Bronson and Ethan Watters -- join us on the GrottoPod. They come not to discuss their stellar careers in journalism but to share ho...
14 Feb 201756min
