Author interviews almost always focus on questions regarding an author’s latest publication (and that’s great because it’s how readers discover new books!) but sometimes it’s fun to ask authors to talk about their lives beyond the book they’ve just written. Authors Answer poses 20 standing questions and asks authors to pick FIVE that they want to write about.
I began Authors Answer in 2020 as a stand alone blog. In 2025 I moved the project into a Substack newsletter. All of the posts that appeared on the original blog are available below. [You can also scroll through the original posts by date.]
Are you an author? Visit the Questions page to pick five of the twenty questions you’d like to answer and have shared in the Authors Answer Substack Newsletter.
Meryl Ain’s debut novel, The Takeaway Men, won a Gold Medal for Historical Fiction in The American Fiction Awards just two weeks after it was published. The book is the result of her
When he’s not writing Caley Cross, Jeff Rosen creates award-winning children’s television series like Bo on the Go, Poko, Animal Mechanicals, The Mighty Jungle, Pirates!, Monster Math Squad, and Space Ranger Roger. He was the
Iris Mitlin Lav grew up in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. She moved to Washington, DC, with her husband in 1969, where they raised three children.
LB Gschwandtner has attended numerous fiction-writing workshops―the Iowa Writers Workshop and others―studied with Fred Leebron, Bob Bausch, Richard Bausch, Lary Bloom, Joyce Maynard, Sue Levine, and Wally Lamb,
Feyisayo Anjorin is a filmmaker and a writer. He trained as a filmmaker at AFDA Johannesburg. He was the narrator of “The Land of Gulungulun” fiction podcast. His
Katherine Snow Smith has lived throughout the South as a newspaper reporter, magazine editor, public relations executive, daughter, sister, mother, wife, divorcee, and friend. She graduated from the
A.R. Taylor is the author of JENNA TAKES THE FALL (She Writes Press) as well as an award-winning playwright, essayist, and fiction writer. Her debut novel, Sex, Rain, and Cold Fusion, won a
Brandi Spering has a BFA in Creative Writing from Pratt Institute. Her forthcoming book, This I Can Tell You, will be released by Perennial Press, winter 2020. Spering’s work can
Kendra Atleework is the recipient of the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award and was selected for The Best American Essays, edited by Ariel Levy. She received her MFA in creative
Mamta Chaudhry’s debut novel, HAUNTING PARIS (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), has been praised as “elegantly wrought” by The New York Times Book Review and “a heart-wrenching love letter to Paris” by Publishers Weekly.