About the Show
Writer to Writer, a monthly radio show airs on the first Sunday of each month on Radio Boise’s Stray Theater. The show is hosted by Rebecca Evans and Ken Rodgers. The show invites artists to read their work, chat about craft, share stories, and toss words and thoughts to the world.
Rebecca Evans is a memoirist, poet, and essayist. In addition to writing, she teaches Creative Nonfiction at Boise State University and mentors high school teens in the juvenile system. In her spare time, she co-hosts a radio program, Writer to Writer, offering a space for writers to offer tips on craft and life. She’s also disabled, a Veteran, a Jew, a gardener, a mother, a worrier, and more. She has a passion for sharing difficult stories about vulnerability woven with mysticism.
Evans earned two MFAs, one in creative nonfiction, the other in poetry, University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. Shelives in Idaho with her sons, her Newfoundlands, and her Calico.
Her poems and essays have appeared in Narratively, The Rumpus, Passengers Literary Journal, Hypertext Magazine, War, Literature & the Arts, The Limberlost Review, and a handful of anthologies. She’s co-edited When There Are Nine, a tribute to the life and achievements of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Moon Tide Press, 2022). She’s authored a memoir-in-verse, Tangled by Blood, (Moon Tide Press, 2023) and a forthcoming poetry book, Safe Handling (Moon Tide Press, 2024).
— Co-Host Rebecca Evans
Ken Rodgers is a poet, writer and filmmaker who lives in Arizona. Both a Pushcart Prize nominee and a Best American Short Stories nominee, Ken’s work has appeared in many fine journals. His published books include a collection of short stories, The Gods of Angkor Wat (BK Publications) and poems Trench Dining (Running Wolf Press) and Passenger Pigeons (Jaxon Press.) Along with his wife Betty, Ken co-directed and co-produced Bravo! Common Men, Uncommon Valor, a feature length documentary film about Ken’s company of Marines at the Siege of Khe Sanh in 1968. Their award-winning documentary, I Married the War, weaves stories about caregivers for combat veterans and is available on Vimeo.
— Co-Host Ken Rodgers
Steven D. Wilson’s original song, “The Words”, is the title song for Writer to Writer Radio Show. Find more of Steve’s music HERE.
