Antioch LitCit #61 Morgan Jerkins
LitCit: Antioch's Literary Citizen Podcast
Release Date: 05/11/2025
Antioch LitCit #64 Edgar Gomez
LitCit: Antioch's Literary Citizen Podcast
On this episode of 's LitCit, host Mansi Aneja chats with writer and Antioch nonfiction faculty member, . Gomez is a queer NicaRican writer born and raised in Florida. He is the author of the memoir High-Risk Homosexual that was released in 2022 and won the American Book Award, a Stonewall Israel-Fishman Nonfiction Book Honor Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. Get to know Gomez, his writing process, and the journey of his second book that was released in February 2025 entitled Alligator Tears. This episode was produced by Bo Thomas Newman and mastered by Mitko Grigorov.
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Antioch LitCit #63 Joy Kecken
LitCit: Antioch's Literary Citizen Podcast
On this episode of 's LitCit, host Alejandra Alexander chats with writer, director, producer, teacher, and esteemed Antioch dramatic writing faculty member, . Joy's short films, Woman Hollering Creek and Louisville, and her feature documentary, The Biggest Little Farm, have screened at over 30 film festivals. She has also developed series for Amazon, ABC Signature, and FX. They discuss , which spans being the co-founder of The Film Foundry, a Culver City-based media company, writing and directing HBO's The Wire, serving as...
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Antioch LitCit #62 Anjali Enjeti
LitCit: Antioch's Literary Citizen Podcast
On this episode of Antioch MFA’s , host Brenda Fantroy-Johnson chats with acclaimed author, essayist, activist, and esteemed Antioch faculty member . Together they discuss in detail her debut novel , her essay collection, , what writing as activism means, and exploring family history. This episode was produced by Bo Thomas Newman and edited by Brenda Fantroy-Johnson and David Nguyen.
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Antioch LitCit #61 Morgan Jerkins
LitCit: Antioch's Literary Citizen Podcast
On of LitCit, host chats with author, screenwriter, editor, director, journalist, and professor, . They discuss her multifaceted career as a professor, editor and journalist, the balance between fiction and nonfiction, her past works such as and , her path to directing her first short film, , and how her new novel, , came to be, which is in stores now. This episode was produced by Mansi Aneja and mastered by Mitko Grigorov.
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Antioch LitCit #60 Cathy Linh Che and Jonathan Chou
LitCit: Antioch's Literary Citizen Podcast
On this episode of , host Jonathan Chou chats with poet, children's book author, filmmaker, multidisciplinary artist, and the Antioch MFA program's new Core faculty head of Poetry, . Together they go in-depth of Cathy Linh Che's previous poetry collection, , and her new collection, , in addition to discussing Jonathan Chou's collection, . They discuss the role of memory in community building, activism, and poetry, false memories found in culture such as in the film, Apocalypse Now, and what it means to write poetry as an Asian-American. This episode was produced by Bo Thomas Newman and...
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Antioch LitCit #59 Kai Adia
LitCit: Antioch's Literary Citizen Podcast
On this episode of , host Jacqueline Rose chats with Los Angeles writer, artist, and publisher, . They discuss Kai's poetry collection, , the Pushcart nominated Afrofuturist anthology she co-edited, and the press she co-founded, Adia also discusses her overlapping responsibilities to the literary community, inspirations, and social activism among writers. This episode was produced by Ian Rodriguez and mastered by Bo Thomas Newman.
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Antioch LitCit #58 Sorcha De Brún part 2
LitCit: Antioch's Literary Citizen Podcast
On this second episode of a two-part episode of , host Caren McDonald chats with guest, , a writer, lecturer, researcher, and Irish translator. They discuss the new wave of Irish language novelists as well as Sorcha De Brun's recent monograph about the intersection of masculinities and the Irish language, focusing on three contemporary writers: , , . This episode was produced by Bo Thomas Newman, and mastered by David Ngyuen.
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Antioch LitCit #57 Sorcha De Brún part 1
LitCit: Antioch's Literary Citizen Podcast
On this of a two-part episode of host Caren McDonald chats with , a writer, lecturerer, researcher, and Irish translator. They discuss how friendship can serve as an important tool for learning language, the need for imagination to keep the Irish language alive, and the different theories on translation pedagogy. Additionally, they critique Caren's attempt at translating one of Sorcha's poems, followed by a discussion of nuances of translation and the (un)reliability of online translation softwares. This episode was produced by Bo Thomas Newman and mastered by Mitko Grigorov.
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Antioch LitCit #56 Erin Aubry Kaplan
LitCit: Antioch's Literary Citizen Podcast
On of , host Jacqueline Rose chats with author, journalist, essayist, and esteemed Antioch faculty member, . They discuss a great deal of Kaplan's books: and , the respect of social justice in writing and observing the world around us, and answering the question: What does it mean to the local and global community, and how does one write about it? This episode was produced by Ian Rodriguez and Mastered by Jacqueline Rose and Bo Thomas Newman.
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Antioch LitCit #55 Claire Dederer
LitCit: Antioch's Literary Citizen Podcast
On of , host Lisa Locascio Nighthawk chats with author, memoirist, and critic, . They discuss her CNF novel, , the importance of a literary community, separating the art from the artist, preserving your mental health in the current political landscape, and the value of structure vs. plot in storytelling. This episode was produced and mastered by Bo Thomas Newman.
info_outlineOn this episode of Antioch MFA's LitCit, host Bo Thomas Newman chats with author, screenwriter, editor, director, journalist, and professor, Morgan Jerkins. They discuss her multifaceted career as a professor, editor and journalist, the balance between fiction and nonfiction, her past works such as This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America and Caul Baby, her path to directing her first short film, Black Madonna, and how her new novel, Zeal, came to be, which is in stores now. This episode was produced by Mansi Aneja and mastered by Mitko Grigorov.