michigan writers

The impacts of tariffs on cars from Chinese automakers, a new graphic novel on the fallibility of the mind and body, and how an adoptee from Detroit found his distant relatives in Finland.

Slate podcast producer Cheyna Roth and her husband joyously welcomed their first child after using in-vitro fertilization. But no one prepared them for the possibility that the treatment might not work again. After nearly a decade of isolating, unsuccessful attempts, Roth connected with other women experiencing the same thing, and she channeled their stories into an award-winning podcast episode.

Southwest Michigan writer Maria Dong’s debut novel “Liar, Dreamer, Thief,” is a page-turning fantastical thriller. Her book is listed as a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Goodreads and Overdrive.

Detroit writer Kelsey Ronan’s debut novel poses rich questions about how we carry the collective histories of the places and people we come from.

Michigan is about to receive nearly $800 million in settlement money from opioid manufacturers and distributors to address addiction in the state. Today’s show digs into the settlement and where that money will go to tackle Michigan’s opioid crisis. After that, we revisit two of our favorite author conversations from the past year.

The strangeness and beauty of bodies and how we live in them is a theme that weaves itself throughout poet Petra Kuppers’ work. These are intensely…

Some poets construct images as immediate as a freshly snapped Polaroid. Others form lyrical landscapes like meticulously composed oil paintings.…

Today, on Stateside, Windsor health officials warn essential workers crossing the border to Detroit daily to limit their time in the city during…

April is National Poetry Month. Thang Lian is a poet and a senior at East Kentwood High School near Grand Rapids. He recently won the Alliance for Young…

Today, on Stateside, winds change for the Michigan GOP leader who called the state’s top three elected officials witches. Plus, stories about the women…