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.
Matthew Langdon Cost has wanted to be a writer since age eight. I Am Cuba is his first traditionally published novel. He has also self-published another work
Alison Moncrieff writes poetry, paints, sews, collects rocks, digs in the dirt, and tends to chickens & children in Oakland, California. She is the author of the
I worked from 1976 to 2017 in the museum field, serving the last 22 years as director of the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave. I wrote my first freelance
Meredith May, a former journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle, is the author of the best-selling memoir, THE HONEY BUS, about her beekeeping childhood with her grandfather
Hadley Moore’s collection Not Dead Yet and Other Stories won Autumn House Press’s 2018 fiction contest and was longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for
J. Ryan Stradal is the author of the New York Times bestseller Kitchens of the Great Midwest, which won the 2016 American Booksellers Association Indie’s Choice Award
Grant Ginder is the author of The People We Hate at the Wedding and Honestly, We Meant Well. He received his MFA from NYU, where he teaches
Emmy award-winning writer Amy Bass was born and raised in New England, the daughter of two noted local journalists, in a house filled with books and a
Elizabeth Rosner is a bestselling novelist, poet, and essayist living in Berkeley, California. Her newest book of non-fiction, SURVIVOR CAFÉ: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of
Nancy B. Kennedy is a journalist and the author most recently of Women Win the Vote! 19 for the 19th Amendment, a middle grade nonfiction book released by