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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