Spoonie Authors Podcast

Sarah has been a compulsive reader her whole life. She is an award-nominated author, a two-time SPFBO semi-finalist, a full-time editor, book reviewer, a semi-pro nature photographer, world traveler, three-time cancer survivor with hEDS, and mom to two kids. In her ideal world, she’d do nothing but drink lots of tea and read from a never-ending pile of books. Sarah has been running the speculative fiction review blog Bookworm Blues since 2010, and is the author of numerous fantasy books. She has been editing full-time since 2016, and is now editor of Grimdark Magazine. This episode of the Spoonie Authors Podcast is brought to you by the Spoonie Authors Network, a community initiative devoted to sharing the stories of disabled authors and providing community for disabled writers.

This month's interview is with Lillie Lainoff, author of the YA novel One For All, a gender-bent retelling of the Three Musketeers. A former Div I NCAA fencer for Yale, Lillie Lainoff is the founder of Disabled Kidlit Writers and the winner of the 2019 LA Review Literary Award for Short Fiction. Her non-fiction has been featured in The Washington Post Outlook, amongst other places. She received her MA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia. One for All, her debut novel, will be published by FSG in March 2022.

Today's episode is with author Leila Tualla. Leila Tualla is a Filipino-American poet and author. Leila’s books include a YA contemporary romance called Letters to Lenora and a memoir/poetry collection called Storm of Hope: God, Preeclampsia, Depression and me. Her poetry is featured in several mental health anthologies and she is currently working on a poetry collection based on Asian American stereotypes and identifies. “

Today we are joined by poet, novelist, and comics writer Mugabi Byenkya! Mugabi Byenkya [https://twitter.com/mugabsb]is an award-winning writer, poet and occasional rapper. Mugabi was longlisted for the Babishai Niwe Poetry Award in 2015. His essays and poetry have been published in The Good Men Project, The Mighty, and Skin Deep, in addition to over 25 other publications. He has been interviewed onVoice of America [https://www.facebook.com/voiceofamerica/?fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDYfae3c69D3SNclHQkrzT5d-gMu-2IgehxgZiJjheVXyud02p2ITEnfC3nBDRhqsyzZgB8iB_8EfUCIME0fpwAwqAEKLZZpyDo47GlYg-7hvnFi_BOUTb-uH4IyEJZWfDpzOex4C4CTLD7Ch5cpXxKyOLGa13wqlrZxhpO2Qsxu4Ro5EpRPio&__tn__=K-R],NTV Uganda [https://www.facebook.com/NTVUganda/?fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDYfae3c69D3SNclHQkrzT5d-gMu-2IgehxgZiJjheVXyud02p2ITEnfC3nBDRhqsyzZgB8iB_8EfUCIME0fpwAwqAEKLZZpyDo47GlYg-7hvnFi_BOUTb-uH4IyEJZWfDpzOex4C4CTLD7Ch5cpXxKyOLGa13wqlrZxhpO2Qsxu4Ro5EpRPio&__tn__=K-R],Africa In Dialogue [https://africaindialogue.com/2019/01/25/a-disabled-body-living-in-an-able-bodied-world-a-dialogue-with-mugabi-byenkya/] andBrittle Paper [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brittle-Paper-literary-blog/243488336112134?fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDYfae3c69D3SNclHQkrzT5d-gMu-2IgehxgZiJjheVXyud02p2ITEnfC3nBDRhqsyzZgB8iB_8EfUCIME0fpwAwqAEKLZZpyDo47GlYg-7hvnFi_BOUTb-uH4IyEJZWfDpzOex4C4CTLD7Ch5cpXxKyOLGa13wqlrZxhpO2Qsxu4Ro5EpRPio&__tn__=K-R], among 40 other media outlets. In 2018, Mugabi was named one of 56 writers who has contributed to his native Uganda’s literary heritage in the 56 years since independence byWritivism [http://writivism.com/]. Dear Philomena was named a Ugandan bestseller in the same year.

The first Spoonie Authors Podcast of the year introduces Jaecyn Boné, author of many short stories, co-founder of Limeoncello, and a novelist about to enter the query trenches.