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Spencer Fleury is the author of the novels The Shitbird_and _How I'm Spending My Afterlife, and the collection I Blame Myself But Also You and other stories. He has worked as a sailor, copywriter, economics professor, and record store clerk, among other disreputable professions. A longtime Florida Man, he now lives and writes in Portugal. 🎧 Like what you hear? Rate and review Textual Healing on  Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It seriously helps us reach more listeners. 🌐 Visit us: https://textualpodcast.com 📲 Follow: Twitter| Instagram | Bluesky: @mallorysmart.bsky.social 🔗 More from Mallory: https://mallorysmart.com 🎵 Beats by God’Aryan

Sam Farhi is from Ithaca, NY and now based in Baltimore. His book, The Sapsuckers, was recently released by Spuyten Duyvil Press, a small press based in New York City. Since its publication it has been chosen by Dennis Cooper as a favorite fiction pick of 2026 so far, received acclaim from indie outlets, and has been featured on LargeHeartedBoy.com. His work has appeared in The Opiate, PACKET Biweekly, ThoseThatThis, Vogue Italia Online, HBO’s New York Latino Film Festival, and Yale’s Paprika!. Recently, his work has been featured in the online lit mags Cable Street and Moral Crema. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Long Island University and is currently working on his next novel, The Sweetheart. 🎧 Like what you hear? Rate and review Textual Healing on  Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It seriously helps us reach more listeners. 🌐 Visit us: https://textualpodcast.com 📲 Follow: Twitter| Instagram | Bluesky: @mallorysmart.bsky.social 🔗 More from Mallory: https://mallorysmart.com 🎵 Beats by God’Aryan

Sam Farhi is from Ithaca, NY and now based in Baltimore. His book, The Sapsuckers, was recently released by Spuyten Duyvil Press, a small press based in New York City. Since its publication it has been chosen by Dennis Cooper as a favorite fiction pick of 2026 so far, received acclaim from indie outlets, and has been featured on LargeHeartedBoy.com. His work has appeared in The Opiate, PACKET Biweekly, ThoseThatThis, Vogue Italia Online, HBO’s New York Latino Film Festival, and Yale’s Paprika!. Recently, his work has been featured in the online lit mags Cable Street and Moral Crema. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Long Island University and is currently working on his next novel, The Sweetheart. 🎧 Like what you hear? Rate and review Textual Healing on  Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It seriously helps us reach more listeners. 🌐 Visit us: https://textualpodcast.com 📲 Follow: Twitter| Instagram | Bluesky: @mallorysmart.bsky.social 🔗 More from Mallory: https://mallorysmart.com 🎵 Beats by God’Aryan

Shane Kowalski lives in Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in Harper's, Conjunctions, EPOCH, Fence, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of the short story collections Small Moods and Are People Out There, both published by Future Tense Books.  🎧 Like what you hear? Rate and review Textual Healing on  Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It seriously helps us reach more listeners. 🌐 Visit us: https://textualpodcast.com 📲 Follow: Twitter| Instagram | Bluesky: @mallorysmart.bsky.social 🔗 More from Mallory: https://mallorysmart.com 🎵 Beats by God’Aryan

Shane Kowalski lives in Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in Harper's, Conjunctions, EPOCH, Fence, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of the short story collections Small Moods and Are People Out There, both published by Future Tense Books.  🎧 Like what you hear? Rate and review Textual Healing on  Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It seriously helps us reach more listeners. 🌐 Visit us: https://textualpodcast.com 📲 Follow: Twitter| Instagram | Bluesky: @mallorysmart.bsky.social 🔗 More from Mallory: https://mallorysmart.com 🎵 Beats by God’Aryan

Claire Vaye Watkins was born in Bishop, California and raised in the Mojave Desert on the Amargosa River. A graduate of the University of Nevada Reno, she earned her MFA from the Ohio State University in 2010. Claire is the author of three novels—Gold Fame Citrus, I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness, and Yellow Pine—and the short story collection Battleborn. She has received the Story Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, as well as fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Alta, One Story, The Believer, The Paris Review, Tin House, McSweeny’s, BOMB, The New Republic, Either/Or, Freeman’s, New York Magazine, The Nevada Independent, The New York Times and elsewhere. She was included in Granta’s “Best Young American Novelists” and the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35.” Claire is on the board of the Amargosa Conservancy and a professor in the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. She lives in Orange County and the Mojave Desert. 🎧 Like what you hear? Rate and review Textual Healing on  Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It seriously helps us reach more listeners. 🌐 Visit us: https://textualpodcast.com 📲 Follow: Twitter| Instagram | Bluesky: @mallorysmart.bsky.social 🔗 More from Mallory: https://mallorysmart.com 🎵 Beats by God’Aryan

Scott Laudati runs Bone Machine from a traphouse in Hereford TX with his dog, Josie. He is the author of Rainbow Road, Play The Devil, and others. His fiction/essays/poetry have been published by The Columbia Journal, XRAY, Maudlin House, Hobart, and others.  🎧 Like what you hear? Rate and review Textual Healing on  Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It seriously helps us reach more listeners. 🌐 Visit us: https://textualpodcast.com 📲 Follow: Twitter| Instagram | Bluesky: @mallorysmart.bsky.social 🔗 More from Mallory: https://mallorysmart.com 🎵 Beats by God’Aryan

Julián Martinez is the son of Mexican and Cuban immigrants and is from Waukegan, IL. His work has appeared in HAD, Rejection Letters, X-R-A-Y and elsewhere. His debut fiction collection will be published in Spring 2027 by Future Tense Books. 🎧 Like what you hear? Rate and review Textual Healing on  Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It seriously helps us reach more listeners. 🌐 Visit us: https://textualpodcast.com 📲 Follow: Twitter| Instagram | Bluesky: @mallorysmart.bsky.social 🔗 More from Mallory: https://mallorysmart.com 🎵 Beats by God’Aryan

Julián Martinez is the son of Mexican and Cuban immigrants and is from Waukegan, IL. His work has appeared in HAD, Rejection Letters, X-R-A-Y and elsewhere. His debut fiction collection will be published in Spring 2027 by Future Tense Books. 🎧 Like what you hear? Rate and review Textual Healing on  Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It seriously helps us reach more listeners. 🌐 Visit us: https://textualpodcast.com 📲 Follow: Twitter| Instagram | Bluesky: @mallorysmart.bsky.social 🔗 More from Mallory: https://mallorysmart.com 🎵 Beats by God’Aryan

Wilson Koewing is a writer from South Carolina. His books JADED, QUASI and ROLLING ON THE BOTTOM are available from Main Street Rag/Mint Hill Books, Anxiety Press and Cowboy Jamboree Press, respectively. His fiction and essays have appeared in Wigleaf, Pembroke Magazine, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Gargoyle and New World Writing. He is currently at work on a short story collection titled THE MELANCHOLY OF DAD and his debut novel WEDDING CRASHER, MARIN COUNTY. He lives and writes in Marin County, California. You can purchase his books and read more of his work on his website www.wilsonkoewing.com. He is active on X @jadedwriter_ 🎧 Like what you hear? Rate and review Textual Healing on  Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It seriously helps us reach more listeners. 🌐 Visit us: https://textualpodcast.com 📲 Follow: Twitter| Instagram | Bluesky: @mallorysmart.bsky.social 🔗 More from Mallory: https://mallorysmart.com 🎵 Beats by God’Aryan

Kirsti MacKenzie (@KeersteeMack) is a writer and editor in chief of Major 7th Magazine. She currently lives in Northern Ontario. Her debut novel, Better to Beg, is out now with House of Vlad/Sweet Trash Press.  🎧 Like what you hear? Rate and review Textual Healing on  Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It seriously helps us reach more listeners. 🌐 Visit us: https://textualpodcast.com 📲 Follow: Twitter| Instagram | Bluesky: @mallorysmart.bsky.social 🔗 More from Mallory: https://mallorysmart.com 🎵 Beats by God’Aryan

Kirsti MacKenzie (@KeersteeMack) is a writer and editor in chief of Major 7th Magazine. She currently lives in Northern Ontario. Her debut novel, Better to Beg, is out now with House of Vlad/Sweet Trash Press.  🎧 Like what you hear? Rate and review Textual Healing on  Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It seriously helps us reach more listeners. 🌐 Visit us: https://textualpodcast.com 📲 Follow: Twitter| Instagram | Bluesky: @mallorysmart.bsky.social 🔗 More from Mallory: https://mallorysmart.com 🎵 Beats by God’Aryan

Alexandra Naughton is the editor in chief of Be About It Press. She is the founder of Bring a Blanket Reading Series and the alternative to AWP mini-festival, A Writers Party. Her latest collection, Sick of Being Inside Myself, was published by House of Vlad in 2025. She writes Talk About It on Substack. 🎧 Like what you hear? Rate and review Textual Healing on  Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It seriously helps us reach more listeners. 🌐 Visit us: https://textualpodcast.com 📲 Follow: Twitter| Instagram | Bluesky: @mallorysmart.bsky.social 🔗 More from Mallory: https://mallorysmart.com 🎵 Beats by God’Aryan

Lake Markham is a writer and photographer based in Chicago, Illinois. His work is rooted in the intersection of art and philosophy, and has appeared in ExPat Press, Zero Readers, and The Philosopher's Meme. Lo Siento, Lake's first full-length novel, was published with Apocalypse Confidential in October 2025. 🎧 Like what you hear? Rate and review Textual Healing on  Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It seriously helps us reach more listeners. 🌐 Visit us: https://textualpodcast.com 📲 Follow: Twitter| Instagram | Bluesky: @mallorysmart.bsky.social 🔗 More from Mallory: https://mallorysmart.com 🎵 Beats by God’Aryan

Mike Corrao is the author of numerous works including the novels, Gut Text (11:11 Press) and Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede (11:11 Press); the poetry collections, The Persimmon is an Event (Broken Sleep Books) and Under Reef (Onomatopee Projects); the plays Smut-Maker (Inside the Castle) and Cephalonegativity (Apocalypse Party); and the essay collection, Surface Studies (Action Books). His work blends writing and book design to explore themes of autonomy, climate anxiety, and anti-capitalism. His latest book, Being Towards Death, is out now from Crop Circle Press. As an artist and designer, his work has been featured in the catalogs of publishers like Fonograf Editions, Milkweed Editions, 11:11 Press, Apocalypse Party, Inside the Castle, and more. 🎧 Like what you hear? Rate and review Textual Healing on  Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It seriously helps us reach more listeners. 🌐 Visit us: https://textualpodcast.com 📲 Follow: Twitter| Instagram | Bluesky: @mallorysmart.bsky.social 🔗 More from Mallory: https://mallorysmart.com 🎵 Beats by God’Aryan