Thank you for joining us for Raven Talk, Raven’s online podcast. 

We are hosting monthly conversations with writers, artists, cultural warriors. Today, Allison Green talks to Rebecca Brown about her new book of essays, You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe, on the four seasons, time and love, death and growing up. In this new nonfiction work, queer novelist Rebecca Brown turns her attention to life’s biggest questions: time, love, and how we endure.

Rebecca Brown

Rebecca Brown is an American novelist, essayist, playwright, artist, and teacher. She was the first writer in residence at Richard Hugo House, co-founder of the Jack Straw Writers Program, and served as the creative director of literature at Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington, from 2005 to 2009. She is the author of many books published in the U.S. and in translation, including The Gifts of the Body, Not Heaven, Somewhere Else, The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary, and The Terrible Girls. She lives in Seattle.

Allison Green

Allison Green earned an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Emerson College. Back in Seattle, at thirty, Allison began her career at Highline Community College, where she has enjoyed teaching writing for more than a quarter of a century. St. Martin’s Press published her novel Half-Moon Scar as part of its Stonewall Inn Editions imprint, and Ooligan Press at Portland State University published her memoir, The Ghosts Who Travel with Me. Her essays, stories, and poems have appeared in publications such as ZYZZYVA, Willow Springs, Raven Chronicles, The Rumpus, and Yes! Magazine. “Twenty Hours and Ten Minutes of Therapy” was published in The Gettysburg Review, reprinted in Utne Reader, and named a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016. 

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