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Episode 167: Roxanne Khamsi on the Joy of Thinking
Jun 18, 2026
31m 02s
Episode 166: Kelli Russell Agodon on Play in Poetry
Jun 4, 2026
31m 39s
Episode 165: Ramona Ausubel Will Get You Unstuck
May 21, 2026
31m 22s
Episode 164: Christie and Rosemerry Interview One Another
May 7, 2026
31m 18s
Episode 163 James Crews on the Radical Act of Rest
Apr 23, 2026
31m 00s
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| 6/18/26 | ![]() Episode 167: Roxanne Khamsi on the Joy of Thinking | “I didn’t know I enjoyed thinking so much,” says science writer Roxanne Khamsi when asked what surprised her most about writing her first book Beyond Inheritance. “I thought I enjoyed interviewing people and reading research papers and the process of finding the right verb in a sentence. What’s hard for me is once I get into that thinking space, I can’t let go of it.” In this episode we talk about how she made the leap from writing articles to writing a book—and why they are so different. We talk about creating an arc for a book of essays, what to do when the structure for your book isn’t working, letting go of a project once its over, meeting our self critic, the role of obsession in writing a book, the art of going for “the big idea” and how to carry that in a nonfiction book, how writing reflects the author’s personality.Roxanne Khamsi is the author of Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Her articles on genetics have appeared in a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, Scientific American, Nature magazine and Wired. Roxanne served as chief news editor for the international research journal Nature Medicine for more than a decade. She is based in Montreal.Author photos credit: Brian Friedman This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe | 31m 02s | ||||||
| 6/4/26 | ![]() Episode 166: Kelli Russell Agodon on Play in Poetry✨ | play in poetryvulnerability in writing+4 | Kelli Russell Agodon | Two Sylvias PressPacific Lutheran University+3 | — | poetryvulnerability+5 | — | 31m 39s | |
| 5/21/26 | ![]() Episode 165: Ramona Ausubel Will Get You Unstuck✨ | creativitywriting strategies+3 | Ramona Ausubel | Colorado State UniversityUnstuck: 101 Doorways Leading From the Blank Page to the Last Page+5 | Boulder, Colorado | writer's blockcreative projects+3 | — | 31m 22s | |
| 5/7/26 | ![]() Episode 164: Christie and Rosemerry Interview One Another✨ | creative processpoetry+4 | — | Good to Go, What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery | — | creative processpoetry+4 | — | 31m 18s | |
| 4/23/26 | ![]() Episode 163 James Crews on the Radical Act of Rest✨ | creativityrest+4 | James Crews | Breathing Room: Poems of Rest and RetreatLove Is for All of Us: Poems of Tenderness & Belonging from the LGBTQ+ Community & Friends | Southern VermontAbenaki | restcreativity+5 | — | 31m 00s | |
| 4/9/26 | ![]() Episode 162: Dimity McDowell on Creative Identities✨ | creative identitywriting+4 | Dimity McDowell | SelfESPN: The Magazine+3 | — | Dimity McDowellcreative identity+5 | — | 30m 04s | |
| 3/26/26 | ![]() Episode 161- Mason Currey on Making Art and Making a Living✨ | creative practicemaking a living+4 | Mason Currey | Making Art and Making a LivingDaily Rituals | Los Angeles | artcreative process+6 | — | 31m 08s | |
| 3/12/26 | ![]() Episode 160 GG Renee Hill on Reclaiming Your Narrative✨ | narrativeself-discovery+4 | GG Renee Hill | Broadleaf BooksStory Work: Field Notes on Self-Discovery and Reclaiming Your Narrative+2 | — | narrativejournaling+5 | — | 31m 35s | |
| 2/26/26 | ![]() Episode 159 Kate Munger: Creating Community through Song✨ | communal singingcommunity building+3 | Kate Munger | Threshold ChoirsHate Has No Home Here+1 | democracy | communal singingKate Munger+3 | — | 30m 57s | |
| 2/12/26 | ![]() Episode 158: Ken Medema on the Art of Improvisation✨ | improvisationstorytelling+3 | Ken Medema | Tree Song | San Francisco Bay area | improvisationKen Medema+5 | — | 31m 02s | |
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| 1/29/26 | ![]() Episode 157: Alia Hanna Habib✨ | literary agencynonfiction writing+3 | Alia Hanna Habib | The Gernert CompanyTake It From Me: An Agent’s Guide to Building a Nonfiction Writing Career from Scratch | Brooklyn, NY | literary agentnonfiction+3 | — | 30m 52s | |
| 1/15/26 | ![]() Episode 156: Chris Duffy Wrote a Book, and Guess What? It's Hilarious and Awesome✨ | humorcreativity+4 | Chris Duffy | How to Be a Better HumanWyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas+2 | — | humorcreativity+5 | — | 31m 55s | |
| 1/8/26 | ![]() Episode 155: Emerging Form Guests Share Their Words for 2026✨ | words for the yearguest contributions+3 | Andrea BarrettBonnie Tsui+16 | KOTO radioEmerging Form+1 | — | words for the yearEmerging Form+4 | — | 33m 06s | |
| 12/25/25 | ![]() Episode 154: Christie & Rosemerry Look Back on 2025✨ | creative practicesreflection+3 | Rosemerry | — | — | creative practicesreflection+5 | — | 30m 10s | |
| 12/11/25 | ![]() Episode 153: Todd Mitchell on How a Breakdown Led to a Breakthrough | “I had to reassess how I approached creativity and life in general,” says author Todd Mitchell. In this episode of Emerging Form, we speak with the award-winning author about how to re-envision our creative practice, how to re-think our definition of success and what makes a creative practice sustainable. We also talk about why jelly beans might be an essential item in any creative’s toolbox, habits that help us return to the page another day, and practices that help us identify where our ego is getting in the way.Todd Mitchell is the American Fiction Award-winning author of several novels for young readers and adults including The Namer of Spirits (Owl Hollow Press), The Last Panther (Penguin Random House), The Traitor King (Scholastic), Backwards (Candlewick), and The Secret to Lying (Candlewick). In addition to writing books and comics, Todd works with artists, teachers, and writers on ways to enhance creativity. His newest non-fiction book, Breakthrough: How to Overcome Doubt, Fear, and Resistance to Be Your Ultimate Creative Self, is the culmination of decades of research into creative practices. Currently, Todd directs the Beginning Creative Writing Teaching Program at Colorado State University. You can visit him (and learn about his squirrel obsession) at www.ToddMitchellBooks.com. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe | 32m 17s | ||||||
| 11/27/25 | ![]() Episode 152: Julia Belluz on How to Have A Happy Collaboration | “There are enough talented people out there,” says Julia Belluz, “but only collaborate with people you really like.” This was the advice the writer followed when deciding to work with scientist Kevin Hall on their new book, Food Intelligence. The resulting book weaves his narrative and evolution as a scientist with her narrative as a patient and journalist. In this episode, we explore what makes a successful collaboration, how to define roles—and why to do this right up front, the importance of trust, and how to communicate throughout the process.Julia Belluz is a Paris-based journalist and co-author of the new book, Food Intelligence. A contributing opinion writer to the New York Times, she has reported extensively on medicine, nutrition, and global public health from Canada, the US, and Europe. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe | 30m 39s | ||||||
| 11/13/25 | ![]() Episode 151: Alison Luterman on Striving | “I’m a striver,” poet Alison Luterman, “still striving to grow.” In this interview with the beloved poet, we follow up on our conversation from episode 64 “It’s Okay to Not Feel Talented, Keep Going Anyway,Alison tells us about her ongoing singing lessons and how they have changed the way she listens, not only to music but to conversations and the rest of the world. This practice is at the heart of her new collection, Hard Listening. Not only does she read from the book, but she shares about what she learned about creativity from studying the lives of her singing heroes, the interweaving of politics and creative practice, and how to explore and share pleasure in the midst of difficult times.Alison Luterman’s four books of poems include The Largest Possible Life; See How We Almost Fly; Desire Zoo; and In the Time of Great Fires. She has published poems in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, and many other journals and anthologies. She lives in Oakland, California, where she walks her neighborhood daily, stopping at all the yards where there’s a sweet-smelling bush or tree. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe | 31m 01s | ||||||
| 11/6/25 | ![]() Episode 150 Bonus: The Medicine of Surrender, Poetry, and Metaphor With Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer | Can poetry be a form of medicine? In this week’s bonus episode, we share a guest podcast, the Wise Effort Show, hosted by our recent guest Dr. Diana Hill. In the bonus episode she did with Emerging Form, Diana shared a poem that was inspired by this interview with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. They discuss the role of poetry in emotional processing, grief, love, and connection. Diana shares how Rosemerry’s poetry has personally influenced her life and work. Rosemerry reads some of her poems, discusses her daily practice of writing a poem everyday, and offers insights into how poetry can help us be present with our pain and transform it. Drawing from her own experiences, especially the tragic loss of her son, Rosemerry explains how metaphors and a daily writing habit can serve as healing practices.Join this insightful conversation to discover the therapeutic potential of poetry and how it can guide us through life’s most challenging moments.In This Episode, We Explore:* The Power of Poetry in Therapy* Rosemerry’s Personal Journey with Poetry* Daily Writing Practice and Its Benefits* Embracing Imperfection and Truth* Sharing Personal Grief Publicly This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe | 56m 36s | ||||||
| 10/30/25 | ![]() Updated Episode 150: Filling the Well | How do we take care of our creative selves? How do we step off the wheel of production and find ourselves in the wide-open moment with room to wonder and wander? In this episode, hosts Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Christie Aschwanden have a conversation about where they are at now in their well-filling cycle, the importance of creative self-care and the consequences of not doing so. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe | 31m 34s | ||||||
| 10/16/25 | ![]() Episode 149: Diana Hill on Genius Energy | Everyone has creative genius, says Diana Hill, PhD, and in her new book, Wise Effort: How to Focus Your Genius Energy on What Matters Most, she explores how to best explore and nurture that genius. We speak about how she battled some of her own demons while writing the book–the committee arguing in her head. We talk about wise effort–not trying too hard, and the three main practices that fuel wise effort–getting curious, opening and focusing. It’s a practical, vulnerable, lighthearted episode.Diana Hill, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, international trainer, and a leading expert on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)—a revolutionary approach to psychology that is changing our understanding of mental health. Drawing from the most current psychological research and contemplative wisdom, Diana bridges science with real-life practices to helppeople grow fulfilling and impactful lives. She is the author of four books including I Know I Should Exercise, But..., The Self-Compassion Daily Journal, ACT Daily Journal, and her latest Wise Effort: How to Focus Your Genius Energy on What Matters Most. She’s the host of the Wise Effort Podcast and her insights have been featured by NPR, Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, Real Simple, and other national media.Website: www.wiseeffort.compodcast: www.wiseeffortshow.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe | 31m 53s | ||||||
| 10/2/25 | ![]() Episode 148: David Baron on Torturous First Drafts and the Pleasures of Historical Research | “The first draft is absolute torture,” says historical nonfiction writer David Baron. And yet, he persists and his newest book, The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America has garnered rave reviews from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and more. The Christian Science Monitor says, “The Martians is a fascinating tale that’s beautifully told.” We speak with Baron about the joys of research, the agony of writing, the delight in rewriting, how imagination cuts both ways, and how Truman Capote’s work has influenced his own. David Baron is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and author of The Beast in the Garden, American Eclipse and his latest book The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America. A former science correspondent for NPR, he has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, and other publications. David recently served as the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe | 29m 59s | ||||||
| 9/18/25 | ![]() Episode 147: Michael Kleber-Diggs on the Role of the Artist in “dark times” | In this episode, we talk with Michael about the importance of mentors and how sometimes they transition to colleagues as we find our own footing in our creative work, stepping into our own creative identity. He reads “What Name for This,” from his book Worldly Things, and we use the poem as a launching pad to talk about creative relationships, why we write and how attentiveness to the specific can lead us to questions about the universal, and making art out of the ordinary. And, in thinking about the role of the artist in a difficult time, Michael shares his controversial idea about the role of the artist in “dark times.”Michael Kleber-Diggs (KLEE-burr digs) is a poet, essayist, literary critic, and arts educator. He is the author of My Weight in Water, a memoir about his complicated relationship with lap swimming (forthcoming with Spiegel & Grau, 2026). Michael’s debut poetry collection, Worldly Things, won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and was published by Milkweed Editions in 2021. The New York Times Book Review said his poems, “see the whole, allowing daily intimacies against a backdrop of social injustice.”His poems and essays often explore themes of intimacy, community, empathy, and grace, practices he believes are simultaneously distinct and interdependent. Michael is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Literature, and he teaches creative writing at Augsburg University and through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. Michael is married to Karen Kleber-Diggs, a tropical horticulturist and orchid specialist. Karen and Michael have a daughter, Elinor, who lives in New York City and works as a professional dancer. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe | 29m 58s | ||||||
| 9/4/25 | ![]() Episode 146: Maria Kelson on Switching Genres | One day, nationally acclaimed poet Maria Kelson hit “a poetry wall” for no identifiable reason. “It was frustrating,” she says, “because I had devoted myself to poetry. For 15 years, it was my primary focus.” What happened next–she followed an emerging passion, crime fiction. ‘As i was casting about I thought, I want to explore the dark side.” In this episode we talk with Maria about shedding layers of creative identity, finding new community, art as a way to explore and expose issues of social injustice, and the surprising ways poetry informs her new award-winning thriller.Maria Kelson has two collections of poetry (as Maria Melendez) with University of Arizona Press, which were finalists for the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Colorado Book Award. NOT THE KILLING KIND is her debut novel. If you're a mystery/thriller reader drawn to strong female leads, the scary beauty of the redwood country, moms who push it to the limit, or crime-fighting ESL teachers, she wrote her debut novel NOT THE KILLING KIND for you! It received the inaugural Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Crime Fiction Writers of Color from Sisters in Crime and just won the WILLA award for best mystery/thriller. She has served as an American Voices arts envoy in Bogotá, Colombia. A Mexican-American educator from California, Maria lives near Yellowstone. She’s writing a new thriller set there. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe | 31m 50s | ||||||
| 8/21/25 | ![]() Episode 145: Starre Vartan on What it Really Means to Be Strong | When Starre Varten sat down to write her book The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us about the Power of the Female Body, she came to the project with two things: an intellectual thesis and a very personal bodily story. In this episode, we talk with Starre about how both mind and body fueled her creative practice. We also talk about how what began as an article became a book, how to turn toward the part of the book you might rather turn away from, how an outsider’s perspective can help us see our project more clearly and what it really means to be strong.Starre Vartan is a science writer who was raised in a family of creatives and medical professionals. She grew up in New York and now splits her time between the Pacific Northwest and Sydney, Australia. She contributes regularly to Scientific American and National Geographic and has written for CNN, the Washington Post, Slate, and New York magazine, among many others. Her new book, The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us about the Power of the Female Body, is a science-backed, myth-busting love letter to the female body—think endurance, immunity, and the kind of strength that doesn’t flex, it lasts.Starre’s Website: https://starrevartan.com/Her Washington Post story why dancing is good for your body and soul. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starrevartan/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thecurioushumana This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe | 29m 52s | ||||||
| 8/7/25 | ![]() Episode 144: Making Peace with Promoting Your Creative Work | Making something is fun. Promoting it? Not so much… On this episode of Emerging Form, Rosemerry and Christie discuss the what happens when you put something you’ve created out into the world. How do you get it to your intended audience? How do encourage people to find it without feeling like an icky self-promotional nag? We also discuss the pain of realizing that your friends didn’t and won’t read or watch or listen to your new thing, the importance of remembering why you’re doing this, and the 100 day promotion project we tried (inspired by previous Emerging Form guests Chris Duffy and Zach Sherwin) and what it taught us.Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet, teacher, speaker and writing facilitator. Her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, is on the Ritual app. Her poems have appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, and Carnegie Hall stage. Her most recent poetry collections are All the Honey (Samara Press, 2023) and The Unfolding (Wildhouse Publishing, 2024). In January, 2024, she became the first poet laureate for Evermore, helping others explore grief, bereavement, wonder and love through poetry.Christie Aschwanden is author of the New York Times bestseller, Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn From the Strange Science of Recovery and host and producer of Uncertain, a podcast from Scientific American. She’s the former lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight and was previously a health columnist for The Washington Post. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications, including the New York Times, Wired, Smithsonian, Slate, Popular Science, Discover, Science and Nature. She’s received fellowships from the Santa Fe Institute, the Carter Center and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. She lives in Cedaredge.Rosemerry’s new album Risking Love on Bandcamp, Spotify and Youtube This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe | 31m 06s | ||||||
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