The Tiferet Talk Interviews is a fascinating collection of twelve interviews transcribed from the TiferetTalk Radio show, hosted by author and professor Melissa Studdard.Some of the world's most notable writers and spiritual leaders share their thoughts on writing, tolerance, and the world we live in today. Gain incredible insight into their perspective on ways to tell the truth of our lives, access creativity, and balance magic and craft.The Tiferet Talk Interviews includes a special introduction by Tiferet publisher and author Donna Baier Stein and interviews with: Author of "The Artist's Way" Julia Cameron w Guggenheim Foundation President Edward Hirsch w Jude Rittenhouse w Arielle Ford w Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinksy w Dr. Bernie Siegel w Spiritual teacher and inter-nationally published author Robin Rice w Marc Allen w Floyd Skloot w Jeffrey Davis w Anthony Lawlor w Lois P. Jones.
Melissa Studdard is the author of the bestselling novel, Six Weeks to Yehidah, which was a recipient of the Forward National Literature Award, among other accolades. She is also a mother, a professor, a poet, a reviewer, an editor, and a talk show host. You can learn more about Melissa and her work at www.melissastuddard.com. Donna Baier Stein, publisher of TIFERET, has published fiction and poetry in Virginia Quarterly Review, Kansas Quarterly, New York Stories, Prairie Schooner, Washingtonian, many other journals and anthologies from Simon & Schuster and The Spirit That Moves us Press. Her story collection Sympathetic People, a Finalist in the Iowa Fiction Awards, will be published in 2013. She has received the PEN/New England Discovery Award for Fiction, a Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars Fellowship, Bread Loaf Scholarship, a grant from the New Jersey Council of the Arts, prizes from the Poetry Council of Virginia, two Pushcart nominations, and an Honorable Mention in the 2013 Allen E. Ginsberg Poetry Awards. Her poetry chapbook Sometimes You Sense the Difference was published in 2012. Donna was a Founding Editor of Bellevue Literary Review and founded and currently publishes Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature (www.tiferetjournal.com.) She is also an award-winning copywriter. Her website is www.donnabaierstein.com.
