Kristine Langley Mahler [Guest host: Sara Rauch]

Guest host Sara Rauch talks with Kristine Langley Mahler about space-out time, her work with Split/Lip Press, discovering creative non-fiction, finding a writing community online, submitting to lit mags, her essay collection CURING SEASON, formal experimentation and structure as processing elements, immersion and vulnerability, adolescence, and more.

Kristine Langley Mahler is the author of the debut essay collection Curing Season: Artifacts (WVU Press, 2022). She directs Split/Lip Press. Her next book, A Calendar is a Snakeskin, will be out with us here at Autofocus sometime next year.

Sara Rauch is the author of XO (Autofocus Books, 2022) and What Shines from It: Stories (Alt Current, 2020). sararauch.com

Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.