Kendra Merritt has relied on books as an escape for as long as she can remember. She used to hide fantasy novels behind her government textbook in high school, and she wrote most of her first novel during a semester of college algebra. Older and wiser now (but just as nerdy) she writes comedic fantasy […]
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SunLit Interview: For Ellen Weir Casey, “Unstoppable” offered a chance to educate
Ellen Weir Casey is the mother of Colorado’s first “test-tube baby.” Her debut memoir, “Unstoppable: Forging The Path To Motherhood in The Early Days Of IVF,” is the first-person account of a patient’s experience in the dawning days of assisted reproductive technology. Casey is a passionate advocate for the family building technology of IVF and […]
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SunLit Interview: How a single line in a travel guide led EJ Levy to write “The Cape Doctor”
EJ Levy’s novel, “The Cape Doctor,” was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and one of Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of Summer 2021. Her story collection, ”Love, In Theory,” won a Flannery O’Connor Award and GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction. Levy’s anthology, “Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American […]
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SunLit Interview: Jodi Bowersox’s deep research on schizophrenia shaped one of her characters
Jodi Bowersox has been an actress, seamstress, designer, business owner, homeschool teacher, kid’s choir director and artist. Her romance novels span genres from faith fiction to suspense to time travel to sci fi with small town and big city settings. Several have won awards from the Colorado Book Awards, the Colorado Authors League, and the […]
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SunLit Interview: To publish “The Reincarnationist Papers,” Eric Maikranz took an unusual route
D. Eric Maikranz has had a multitude of lives in this lifetime. He worked as an industrial welder before attending the University of Colorado to study Russian literature, was a foreign correspondent in Rome, translated for relief doctors in Nicaragua during a cholera epidemic, and was once forcibly expelled from Laos. He has worked as […]
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SunLit Interview: Jim Davidson’s harrowing experience led to tools for scaling “The Next Everest”
Jim Davidson is a climber and professional speaker with Speaking of Adventure. During his 40 years of mountaineering, he has ascended high mountains on six continents. He is a New York Times best-selling author who wrote “The Next Everest,” which is being published in five languages. Jim coauthored “The Ledge” with Kevin Vaughan which was […]
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SunLit Interview: Kathryn Wilder started with essays. Slowly, they grew into a cohesive narrative.
Kathryn Wilder’s work has been cited in Best American Essays, nominated for the Pushcart Prize and other awards, and has appeared in several publications and anthologies. A graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Wilder was a finalist for the 2016, 2019, and 2022 Ellen Meloy Fund Desert Writers Award; […]
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SunLit Interview: Jenny Shank drew on experience to reach across chasms in “Mixed Company”
Jenny Shank is a Boulder-based writer whose stories, essays, satire, and book reviews have appeared in many publications, including The Atlantic, The Washington Post and The Guardian. Her work has been honorably mentioned by The Best American Essays and the Pushcart Prize anthology. She writes a monthly newsletter called The Tumbleweed, at https://jennyshank.substack.com. She teaches […]
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SunLit Interview: Ever the writer, even Gary Reilly’s fiction often focused on literary craft
Gary Reilly was the author of 25 unpublished novels during his lifetime. Since his death in 2011, Running Meter Press has published 15 of them. Born in Kansas, he grew up in Colorado, where he attended college and, after a stint in the Army, devoted himself to his writing – though he never tried very […]
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SunLit Interview: “Alpha” author David Philipps faced barriers of silence and suspicion
David Philipps is a Colorado native living in Colorado Springs. His first job was with the Colorado Springs Gazette, where he worked as a paperboy in his youth and in 2014 won the Pulitzer Prize for a report exposing how soldiers at Fort Carson who showed post-deployment symptoms of PTSD and traumatic brain injury often […]