Author and amateur genealogist Eric Walker heard stories throughout his life from family members describing the struggles of their African American ancestors. Eventually, he decided to take these stories and make them into a fictional representation of his family with this book.

Author JD Blackrose joins Doug Dangler in this edition of Craft.

For Trent Wagler and the other members of the Steel Wheels, where they’re from is an amorphous assortment of memories that have meaning to them. Hear more in this edition of Craft with Doug Dangler.

Comic Sumukh Torgalkar will return to central Ohio after a few years on the West Coast to record his second comedy album at Madlab on June 3. Listen in as we discuss his comedy interests, the impact of the pandemic, and what kind of comedy he prefers to do.

Singer-songwriter Jeff Black will appear on June 3 with Columbus’ Six String Concert series.

In and out of care facilities for many years, Dr. Carolyn Bailey Lewis persevered and became director and general manager of OUB public media at Ohio University in Athens, where she served for 13 years as the first woman and first African American to lead this entity and the first woman to be emerita.

Dorr's most recent book is Profiles in Resilience: Books for Children and Teens That Center the Lived Experience of Generational Poverty, and it's something she started after discovering that librarians who had grown up in middle class or higher income homes had difficulties understanding children living in generational poverty.

Brendan Kiely had in some ways a similar and in others a very different kind of youth, and that’s led him to confront racism and write The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege. He’ll appear with at this weekend’s virtual Ohioana Book Festival.

Ron Allan from Big Voice Productions in central Ohio has performed and taught voice acting throughout the Midwest and has over 30 years of experience. As he said during our discussion, “somewhere, right now, this minute, I’m on a radio commercial, a TV commercial, an industrial narration, a phone message, or an audio book.”

Cleveland poet George Bilgere’s latest collection is Central Air, which was released March 2022. He hosts “Wordplay” on Cleveland Public Radio, which has been described as the car talk of poetry. He joins the Ohioana virtual Book Festival on April 29 through May 4.