Susan Marquez

Susan Marquez has written over 3500 articles about MS arts and culture for The Bluegrass Standard, Our South, Okra, Country Roads, Delta magazine, and many others. She is the culture […]

Teresa Marita McGuire

Teresa Marita McGuire is an independent author and spoken word performing artist with experience in Mississippi and Tennessee. She currently writes and performs original poetry. She was a small press […]

Mississippi Arts Hour – Louis Bourgeois

This week on the Arts Hour, Lauren Rhoades talks with Louis Bourgeois, founder of the Mississippi Prison Writes Initiative, whose goal is to teach and encourage creative writing and the arts in prisons across Mississippi. The episode airs on MPB Radio on Sunday, December 15, at 5 p.m. CT. You can also listen on your favorite podcasting app.

Sandra Measels

For Sandra Measels, the best part of storytelling is the sense of community she feels when telling or hearing a good story. Twice she has told at the National Storytelling […]

Amie C. Clark

Amie Clark is a long-time living historian with over 25 years of experience traveling the country portraying historic figures and presenting first-person demonstrations. This has led her to a career […]

Steven Issac Randle

I’m a lifelong poet and storyteller through verse who brings an aggressive style and mastery of wordplay to the poetry experience. I am a poet for hire through spoken and […]

Eliot Parker

Eliot Parker is the author of the recent thriller novel, A Final Call, which was named Best Book to Discover in 2022 by Kirkus Reviews and Kirkus Magazine. His short […]

Patti Golden

I am a Mississippi author of fiction and non-fiction, including four international mysteries set in Eastern Europe. In all of my writing, the reader sees the places I visit just […]