For our sixth episode of the Converge Lecture Series Podcast, we’re joined by writer Anthony Doerr. A writer of short stories, memoir, and novels, Doerr is perhaps best known for the book, All The Light We Cannot See.

For our fifth episode of the Converge Lecture Series Podcast, we’re joined by writer Carmen Maria Machado. Machado is an author, essayist and critic, best known for her debut short story collection Her Body and Other Parties.

For our fourth episode of the Converge Lecture Series Podcast, we’re joined by writer Karen Russell.

For our third episode of the Converge Lecture Series Podcast, we’re joined by writer Edwidge Danticat. Danticat is the acclaimed author of many books of fiction and non-fiction, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Dew Breaker, and Brother, I’m Dying. She is also a prolific writer of short stories, essays, children’s books, and more.

For our second episode of the Converge Lecture Series Podcast, we’re joined by poet Richard Blanco. If you watched the second inauguration of Barack Obama in 2013, then you’re familiar with Blanco’s work.

For our first episode of the Converge Lecture Series Podcast, we’re joined by writer George Saunders Saunders has been dazzling readers for more than two decades with his essays, articles, short stories, and now his debut novel: Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction last year.

In partnership with Converge Lecture Series, 91.5 KRCC presents a new podcast dedicated to exploring big ideas with some of the biggest writers and thinkers around.