Listen to author (and Author Evening host), mentor, teacher, and editor Samantha Dunn rant about being a memoirist, a ghost, and an "enemy of the people" while Fellowship Manager Amanda Fletcher says "like" a lot.
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Samantha Dunn is the author of FAILING PARIS, a finalist for the PEN West Fiction Award in 2000, and the memoirs NOT BY ACCIDENT and FAITH IN CARLOS GOMEZ. She has ghostwritten several books and her writing has been anthologized in WOMEN ON THE EDGE, DANCING AT THE SHAME PROM, and in DRINKING DIARIES. Sam teaches creative writing for UCLA Extension Writers' Program and the Idyllwild Arts Center and is the Executive Editor for COAST magazine.