Meg Gardiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels. Her thrillers have won the Edgar Award and been summer reading picks by the Today show and O, the Oprah Magazine. In August 2022 Heat 2, coauthored with Michael Mann, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Shadowheart is the 4th novel in her Unsub Series. A former lawyer and three-time Jeopardy! champion, Gardiner lives in Austin, Texas. 

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Meg Gardiner talks about Shadowheart, book four in her Unsub series

Gabriella Buba is a writer and chemical engineer who likes to keep explosive pyrophoric materials safely contained in pressure vessels or between the covers of her books. She writes adult romantic fantasy for bold, bi, brown women who deserve to see their stories centered. SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW, book one in the Stormbringer Saga, is her debut novel.

In this fiercely imaginative Filipino-inspired fantasy debut, a bisexual nun hiding a goddess-given gift is unwillingly transformed into a lightning rod for her people's struggle against colonization. Perfect for fans of lush fantasy full of morally ambiguous characters, including The Poppy War and The Jasmine Throne.

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Vengeful goddesses & Tagalog mythology in SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW by debut author Gabriella Buba

Former frontman of PAW, a 1990s Lawrence band, Hennessy reads poems from Airport Motel, his dissertation. According to Hennessy, it "focused geographically on the Airport Motel, just outside of Lawrence, Kan., and ideologically, sort of, in the passage of the Aeneid, where Troy is burning and the families are leaving." 

Photo: 'Body of Work: Poetry Improv' at the Lawrence Arts Center. Credit: Karen Matheis. 

Mark Hennessy: "Collect Call from a Long Distance: Aeneas to Creusa"

KCUR 89.3 is the NPR member station in Kansas City, Missouri. Our nine-month project WORD, January - September 2015, was an effort to provide greater exposure for the literary arts within our listening area and to place a spotlight on poetry, fiction and essays by area writers. 

Our arts team recorded writers reading their work in our studio and at live events in the community. We also requested submissions of original poetry, fiction and essays from first-time writers to widely published professionals.

Find out more about our WORD writers here: http://kcur.org/term/word 

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Mark Hennessy: "Collect Call from a Long Distance: Aeneas to Creusa"

WORD on KCUR 89.3

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