Kathie Giorgio, a Wisconsin-based writer and founder of The All Writers Workshop, joined Leah to talk about her lifelong love of writing and her genre-agnostic publishing career. Kathie published her first short story as a teenager, her first book at 50, and will publish her 14th book in 2024.
Content Warning: Kathie and Leah are both breast cancer survivors and discuss the illness, as well as bullying, death by suicide, and political violence throughout the episode.
UPDATE: Shortly after this episode was published, Kathie's husband suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was hit by a driver in a minivan while walking to the bus. Go Fund Me available here.
Keep up with Kathie online
- KathieGiorgio.org
- Facebook @KathieGiorgioAuthor
- Twitter @kathiegiorgio
- Instagram: Instagram @kathiegio1
- Don’t Let Me Keep You due for release October 3rd.
- Today's Moment of Happiness Despite the News: A Year of Spontaneous Essays
- Find Kathie on Bookshop.org
Show Notes
- Hope Always Rises
- All Writers’ Workplace & Workshop, LLC
- Maria Bamford’s memoir Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
- This Week's Moment of Happiness Despite the News, the blog the preceded the book
- Poet Kelly Cherry
- Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books
- Brian Mazzaferri/I Fight Dragons
- The E Myth Revisited
- Oddities & Endings
- Chicago Jewish Book Festival
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