Kira Jane Buxton

08/30/19 • -1 min

Kira Jane Buxton's writing has appeared in The New York Times, NewYorker.com, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Huffington Post and more. She calls the tropical utopia of Seattle home and spends her time with three cats, a dog, two crows, a charm of hummingbirds and a husband. Her latest book is Hollow Kingdom. I spoke with Kira at our studio.

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Michael Benanav

Michael Benanav is an author In addition to his books, Michael writes and/or shoots for The New York Times, Lonely Planet, The Christian Science Monitor Magazine, Geographical, Afar, CNN.com, Wend and Hand/Eye among others. His photographic work has been selected to appear in the National Geographic book, Rarely Seen: Images of the Extraordinary and he's a freelance photographer known for immersing in foreign cultures and bringing compelling stories and images back from distant places. When not in some remote nook of the planet, Michael can often be found hiking in the hills behind his home in northern New Mexico. I spoke with him about his latest book, Himalaya Bound: One Family's Quest to Save Their Animals & an Ancient Way of Life.

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Cara Wall

Cara Wall is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and Stanford University. While at Iowa, Cara taught fiction writing in the undergraduate creative writing department as well as at the Iowa Young Writer’s Studio in her capacity of founder and inaugural director. She went on to teach middle school English and History and has been published by Glamour, Salon and The San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in New York City with her family. Her latest novel is The Dearly Beloved. I spoke with her at our studios.