Friends & Fiction might be the funnest interview team. I had a blast with these guys. Click on the button to hear the interview, and perhaps you’ll get some laughs too.
Listen at this link or wherever you listen to podcasts. But listen.
Lithub wrote a piece about my latest book. I got goosebumps from this one. Click on the button to read the wonderful piece.
A full-page spread is definitely a wonderful surprise to wake up to.
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Julia Dixon Evans, culture and art reporter at KPBS chatted with me about my new book. We talked writing, teaching, and of course, pie.
Authors in the Tent
Author Ona Russell cListen reated a new LitHub interview series that skyrocketed to 10,000 listens per author after the first season. I was lucky to be part of that first group. Listen to authors like Tod Goldberg, Caitlin Rother, Patricia Santana, and many more.
Scott Townsend’s podcast is a great way to meet interesting people. Full disclosure, we went to high school together, but that doesn’t mean we’ve spoken to one another since 1982. In this interview we talk about writing, writing memoir, and what to do about those pesky people who don’t always turn out looking so good in your version of the story? We laugh way more than we probably should.
Back in early 2020, before that big bleak cloud descended, I was scheduled at the SDWF. This is the interview about my past books and my forthcoming book in 2022. I talk pie, memoir, and the ghostly aspect of memory.
San Diego Writers Festival
RWU Rogers Free Library
Ms. Wallen and moderator Susan Tacent discussed Amy’s latest book, When We Were Ghouls: A memoir of ghost stories. It is part of the American Lives series, curated and edited by Tobias Wolff.
Maureen Cavanaugh on Midday Edition interview about what did my family really do with all those artifacts? "San Diego Writer Reflects on a (Sometimes Morbid) Childhood Abroad.”
KPBS San Diego
"Loneliness haunts Amy Wallen's new memoir" a review by the Irreverent Reverend Jim Ruland. He has the same haunting!
San Diego City Beat
SPIRIT OF STORY
Karin Gutman, the founder of Spirit of Story interviewed me about the writing process, the help along the way, and am I worried about any legal repercussions.