Jinwoo is a Korean Canadian novelist whose debut Oxford Soju Club won the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award. The novel is about Korean spies of three different nationalities: North, South, and American. A tale of deception, espionage, and identity - it is quite apt for these times.

We talk about parenting our mixed race children, pride in our shared Korean culture which has survived war and occupation, and how to stay on track as a writer.

Jinwoo website

Leah website

Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer. She is the co-author of Brothers of the Gun, an illustrated collaboration with Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham, which was a NY Times Notable Book. Her memoir, Drawing Blood, received global praise and attention. Her animated films have won two Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow Award.

Molly’s reportage has been published in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone. She was the 2019 artist-in-residence at NYU’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies in 2019, a New America fellow in 2020, and the winner of the Bernhardt Labor Journalism Award in 2022. In 2023, she was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

Molly's third book, ⁠Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund,⁠ will be released by One World/Random House in April 2026. Please PRE-ORDER if you'd like to support her work and artistry!

Molly website

Leah website

We are so excited for another inspiring and heart-opening conversation with Yumi!

Yumi is a second-generation Japanese-Okinawan-American interdisciplinary artist and the author of several ⁠books⁠ including her latest eBook: ⁠Spells for Transforming Limerance into Liberation⁠.

Yumi reminds us that we are creative, playful, and imperfect beings.

⁠Yumi's website⁠

Yumi's recommended tool: ⁠Brick⁠

⁠Leah's website