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Tananarive Due
Click the link to listen, on 09-15-2024.

Austin Alexander
 

Interdisciplinary artist, Austin Alexander, is an award-winning poet laureate of Maui, best known for representing the kingdom of Hawaii at the 2010 Individual World Poetry Slam. 

 

Presently, he resides in Los Angeles, primarily working as a screenwriter & producer in partnership with best-selling poet/multi-hyphenate, Saul Williams, and screenwriter/producer Gary Goldman - Minority Report, Total Recall, Big Trouble in Little China, Basic Instinct, etc.

 

As a recording and performance artist, he is currently producing a scored work of poetry with composer, Pedro Osuna, (No Time to Die, Argentina 1985, etc.) and world-renowned Hans Zimmer solo cellist, SUVVI.   

 

As a rapper, Austin has shared the stage with hip-hop artists such as Grouch, Eligh, Scarub, and Luckyiam (of Living Legends), Zion I, Abstract Rude, Myka 9, Aceyalone, Haiku d'Etet, Jennifer Johns, Angelo Moore (of Fishbone) and many more.

 

As an educator, he has lectured at the University of Hawaii and taught classes on poetry & creative writing at Montessori and King Kekaulike High School on the island of Maui. 

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SEASON 4 GUESTS 

TANANARIVE DUE (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s "The Twilight Zone" on Paramount Plus, and two segments of Shudder’s anthology film Horror Noire. They also co-wrote their upcoming Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, "Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!"

Click here to go to Tananarive Due's website.


Wendy Adamson is a mental health advocate, a motivational speaker, and the author of two memoirs, Mother Load and Incorrigible which chronicle her own struggles with addiction, mental health, and incarceration, and her stories have been published in the Huffington Post. Wendy volunteers extensively at her son’s non-profit, Hav A Sole, an organization that serves marginalized communities. As a beacon of hope, Wendy has been invited to speak in prisons, on stage, and on public radio. Wendy believes by sharing these stories it will help break the stigmas associated with ex-offenders and addicts. In 2022, Wendy received a commendation from the County of Los Angeles for her dedicated service to the community. In 2023, she was also recognized by the Women’s Association for Addiction Treatment (WAAT) for her commitment to service. 

This episode will be available for replay on 09/03/24.
But follow this link for Wendy Adamson, on her website.

Reyna Grande is an award winning author of the bestselling memoirs, The Distance Between Us (Atria, 2012) and A Dream Called Home (Atria, 2018), where she writes about her life before and after she arrived in the United States from Mexico as an undocumented child immigrant. 

For more on Reyna Grande, click this link to her website.
Or go to my Substack and Spotify pages on byginaduran.org for links to this episode.

WATCH A RECENT CLIP
WITH AN IN STUDIO GUEST

 GUEST: Austin Alexander discusses taking accountability in order to find healing and growth- season 4.

Click here to listen to Part II of this interview on The Collective : After Dark on Substack

 GUEST: Carly Creley talks about environmental science and how it intersects with her art about the Imperial Valley in the first episode of season 4.

Click here to listen on Substack,

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