Identity

June 25, 2021

Identity Adoption & Belonging: A Panel With Jacob Taylor-Mosquera

Listen on VoiceAmerica.com Episode Description Julie Ryan McGue, Author of Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family & Belonging and Jacob Taylor-Mosquera, Author of I […]
June 18, 2021

The Sound Between the Notes: Barbara Linn Probst on Music & Self

The Sound Between the Notes is the story of a woman’s struggle with timeless questions — Who am I, and where do I belong?
June 11, 2021

Twice A Daughter: Julie Ryan McGue’s Memoir on Finding Her Mother

Julie is adopted. She is also a twin. Because their adoption was closed, she and her sister lack both a health history and their adoption papers?
June 4, 2021

Brave(ish): How One Woman, Margaret Davis Ghielmetti, Came to Be

At age forty, Margaret quits her sales job to follow her husband’s hotel career to Paris. She’s setting sail on this adventure with a glass half full of bravery, a well-traveled passport, a journal in which she plans to write her novel, and the mentally engrained Davis Family Handbook of Rules to Live By.
April 9, 2021

Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious with Life Amanda Stern

The world never made any sense to Amanda Stern--how could she trust time to keep flowing, the sun to rise, gravity to hold her feet to the ground, or even her own body to work the way it was supposed to?
March 5, 2021

Courtney Ramm: Eris Rising

Warrior's aren't born, they are forged from the harsh experiences that shape them as they strive to defend what is sacred and true. And geniuses aren't born either-or are they?
February 26, 2021

J. Elle: Wings of Ebony

Listen on VoiceAmerica.com Episode Description In this riveting, keenly emotional debut fantasy, a Black teen from Houston has her world upended when she learns about her […]
February 12, 2021

Melanie Chartoff: Odd Woman Out

Go backstage on Broadway, behind the scenes on network television, and inside the complicated psyche of a talented performer struggling to play the role of a complete human.
February 5, 2021

Joanna Eleftheriou: The Way Back

This Way Back dramatizes a childhood split between Queens, New York, and Cyprus, an island nation with a long colonial history and a culture to which Joanna Eleftheriou could never quite adjust.