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Title :- Literary Aviatrix: The Power of Story - Women in Aviation

Release Date :- 2025-09-04

Artist Name :- Liz Booker - Pilot, Writer, Aviation Diversity Advocate

Genre Name :- Aviation

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Captain Tammie Jo Shults — Southwest Airlines Pilot of Flight 1380, Navy Jet Pioneer, and Author of Nerves of Steel

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Captain Patty Bear Book Launch: Air Force KC-135 Veteran & Airline Pilot on Wisdom Hacks, Decision-Making, Career Transitions, and Women in Aviation

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Bestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood on her historical novel, Katharine: The Wright Sister, and how Katharine Wright changed the course of aviation history

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Yogini Modi: Entrepreneur, Aviation Mentor, and Community Leader, talks about how her flight school in Homestead Florida is helping to grow India's commercial pilots

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Shirley M. Phillips — How Not to Fly an Airplane: Lessons from 40 Years in Aviation

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Women's military equality advocate and author Bridges DelPonte talks about the 14 trailblazing women pilots whose histories intersect with Florida in her book She Soars

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Author Leona Cobham, granddaughter of pioneering aviation advocate Sir Alan Cobham, joins me again to talk about the latest in her middle grade chapter book series featuring vintage British aircraft, Flying Circus: Above and Beyond

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Debut author Carolyn Dasher, talks about her new historical novel, American Sky, which features two women who join the WASP in WWII and their legacy across three generations

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Fantasy and speculative fiction author of The Improvisers, Nicole Glover, talks about how she wove historical themes of aviation, race and civil rights, historically Black communities, music, family, and sisterhood into a magical fantasy fiction myster

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Dr. Jacque Boyd and Captain Jenny Beatty are back for another Literary Aviatrix Classics episode about Amy Johnson

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Final Flight, Final Fight: Author Erin Miller talks about her crusade to change federal law to inter her WASP Grandmother at Arlington National Cemetery

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In this Writers' Room conversation with author Susan Tate Ankeny, we talk about writing and traditionally publishing historical non-fiction

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Susan Tate Ankeny talks about Chinese American WWII WASP Hazel Ying Lee, the subject of her latest book American Flygirl

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Book Launch! Author Becky Aikman talks about her new book Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger in WWII about the women who flew for the Air Transport Auxiliary

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Aviatrix Writers' Room with USA Today Best-Selling Author Heather B. Moore who shares her tips on launching a writing career and how to navigate publishing options.

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Author Amanda Harrison talks about her book Solo2Darwin, a memoir of her attempt to fly solo along Amy Johnson's path from England to Australia in her open cockpit Tiger Moth airplane

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USA Today best-selling author Heather B. Moore talks about her biographical fiction, Lady Flyer, about WWII WAFS/WASP pilot and leader Nancy Harkness Love

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Retired airline pilot and voice actress Pamela Almand, a.k.a. The Captain's Voice, talks about her flying career, how she became an audio book narrator, and what that relationship looks like for authors

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Aviatrix Classics - Jacque, Jenny, and I completely geek out on the incredible adventures of pioneering New Zealand pilot Jean Batten who set multiple records in the 1930s, including being the first person to fly solo from England to New Zealand

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NYT Best-selling author Lorraine Heath talks about her novel The Girls of Flight City featuring the women who trained British Royal Air Force pilots before the U.S. entered WWII

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USAF Judge Advocate General Samantha Arrington Sliney dives deep into the evolution of military aviation pregnancy policies and talks about her new picture book All the Things Our Mommy Can Do coauthored by USAF Pilot Megan Biles

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Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor recipient and Air National Guard Combat Search and Rescue Helicopter Pilot Mary Jennings Hegar talks about her memoir Shoot Like a Girl

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Aviatrix Classics - A Pair of Wings about Bessie Coleman with special guest, author Captain Carole Hopson

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U.S. Army AH-64 Apache combat helicopter pilots Laura Pangallo Fryar and Morgan Samuels talk about their careers and their picture book Be Something Epic

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Alaska Bush and Glacier Pilot Kitty Banner Seemann talks about flying elite mountain climbers, hunters, and adventurers into remote locations in some of the most challenging conditions in the world.

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Aviatrix Classics with guest hosts Dr. Jacque Boyd and Capt. Jenny Beatty - The Fun of It by Amelia Earhart

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Aviatrix Writers' Room: Canadian pilot and author Lola Reid Allin talks about writing her memoir, Highway to the Sky, and hybrid publishing with She Writes Press

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Book launch interview with Canadian pilot Lola Reid Allin about her memoir, Highway to the Sky: An Aviator's Journey, out on September 17th 2024

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Aviatrix Writers' Room Picture Book Publishing Panel: Five authors share their journeys through traditional, hybrid, and self-publishing.

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Aviatrix Classics with guest hosts Dr. Jacque Boyd and Captain Jenny Beatty: I Taught Amelia to Fly by Neta Snook Southern

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Leadership & Development: Author Martha LaGuardia Kotite talks about her books So Others May Live, about U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers and Changing the Rules of Engagement, which features several aviatrix heroines including Tammy Duckworth, Pam Melro

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Aviatrix Classics discussion with Jacque Boyd and Jenny Beatty about Louise Thaden's memoir, High, Wide, and Frightened

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Aviatrix Writers' Room interview with bestselling author Maggie Shipstead on her classical writing education and publishing journey.

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Novelist Maggie Shipstead talks about the feral bootlegging, Alaska bush, and Air Transport Auxiliary pilot character, Marion Graves, from her best selling Great Circle.

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Aviatrix Classics - Introducing my co-hosts, Dr. Jacque Boyd, general aviation pilot and aerospace educator, and Captain Jenny Beatty, professional airline pilot and aviation diversity advocate, both self-proclaimed aviation history and book nerds.

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Pilot Polly Vacher talks about her record-setting solo flight from the North Pole to Antarctica to raise funds for the charity Flying Scholarships for the Disabled

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Prolific mystery writer Edith Maxwell, writing as Maddie Day, talks about her writing career and incorporating historical details about a young Amelia Earhart into her new novel A Case for the Ladies: A Dot and Amelia Mystery

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Bloomberg space journalist and author Loren Grush talks about her book The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

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Aviatrix Writers' Room - New Zealand pilot and author Penelope Haines on going from Na-No-Wri-Mo participant to self-published author.

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New Zealand flight instructor and author Penelope Haines on flying in the Land of the Long White Cloud and her Claire Hardcastle murder mystery Death on D'Urville

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Award winning authors Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein talk about their exciting new collaborative Young Adult release, American Wings: Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality

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Aviatrix Writers' Room: Sara Ackerman on becoming a best-selling historical fiction author after having three novels rejected.

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Best-selling WWII historical fiction author Sara Ackerman reimagines the 1920's Dole Air Race to Hawaii with a female competitor in her new release The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West

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Book Launch Interview - Decorated Veteran Army Helicopter Pilot Kodey Bogart talks about her flying career and her new picture book Helo Girls: The Firefighting Pilot

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Soar Into Joy with my first 'Leadership and Development' series guest, US Navy S-3B Viking pilot and Tech Industry veteran Loree 'Rowdy' Draude, first wave of women to deploy on a carrier, and one-woman show actress.

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Aviatrix Book Club 2024 Reading List Announcement

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Author Leona Cobham, granddaughter of aviation pioneer Sir Alan Cobham, talks about her middle grade book Flying Circus Takes to the Skies, featuring four anthropomorphic vintage aircraft and their adventures

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Aviatrix Book Club November 2024 - USAF Test Pilot and First Female NASA Space Shuttle Pilot & Commander, Col. Eileen Collins (ret.) talks about her journey from childhood to space, and her memoir, Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars.

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Aviatrix Book Club October 2023 Coast Guard H65 Dauphin Helicopter Flight Mechanic Ashlee Leppert talks about rescue response during Hurricane Harvey, earning the Air Medal, and being an honored guest at the State of the Union Address

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Aviatrix Book Club October 2023 UK RAF Chinook aircrew Liz McConaghy talks about her service in Iraq and Afghanistan and her subsequent mental health challenges in her memoir Chinook Crew Chick

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Book Launch: Former USAF F-16 Thunderbird no. 3 Demonstration Pilot and mom, Caroline ‘Blaze’ Jensen, talks about her new picture book THUNDERMOUSE

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Book Launch: Author Mary Carroll Moore talks about how her WWII WASP mother inspired her new thriller novel, A Woman's Guide to Search and Rescue, which features two modern-day female pilot characters

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Writers' Room conversation with former travel-writer-turned-author, Nell McShane Wulfhart, on non-fiction book proposals, agents, and publishing with the Big Five

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Author Nell McShane Wulfhart celebrates the unsung heroines of equal rights in the aviation industry and the women's movement in The Great Stewardess Rebellion

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WP47: Pilot and author Erin Mariah Murphy talks about her early career path toward the airlines via an aviation degree program

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AN22: Thriller novelist Sandy Parks talks about her writing routine and how to infiltrate the writers' conference circuit as a volunteer

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Aviatrix Book Club August 2023 Former Army helicopter pilot Connie Reeves talks about her thriller novel The Elimination Game, her career, and her contribution to the Military Fly Moms book.

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WP46: USAF Lockheed U-2 'Dragon Lady' reconnaissance pilot Merryl Tengesdal talks about the physiological effects of flying on the edge of space

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WP45: General aviation pilot Erin Seidemann talks about flying to The Bahamas

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AN21: Journalist and Author Kathy Mexted talks about the transition from article writing to longer form biographical sketch for her book Australian Women Pilots

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WP44: Lauren Kessler reads about the 1929 Women's Transcontinental Air Race

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WP43: Amy Goodpaster Strebe does a reading from her comparative study Flying for Her Country: The American and Soviet Women Military Pilots of WWII

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AN20: Amy Goodpaster Strebe on publishing an historical graduate school thesis on the WASP and Night Witches with a university press.

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WP42: Accessing WWII history through the stories of the Women Airforce Service Pilots with Tricia Aurand

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WP41 Kathy Mexted talks about Australian Air Transport Auxiliary pilot Marty Gething, and Royal Flying Doctor Service pilot, Esther Veldestra

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Former US Army and Coast Guard helicopter pilot, Darcy Guyant, talks about his new picture book Into the Storm: The Coast Guard Adventures of Dolph and Gwen

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AN19: Merryl Tengesdal’s memoir writing advice to women in aviation: “Just Do It. Go take a dive in the sea of uncomfortableness and start doing the back stroke.”

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WP40: Keith O'Brien on how Florence Klingensmith's menstrual cycle was cited as the probable cause of her air race crash, rather than the flawed design of the GeeBee

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WP39: Historian Clare Mulley talks about gliding for research to describe Hanna Reitsch's aviation exploits, and how real and recent WWII feels through her research

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AN18: Thriller novelist Sandy Parks talks about how she developed her craft

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Critique groups, exploring poetry, attending conferences, writing competitions, and dealing with rejection in your writing with author and English/Creative Writing teacher Pat Valdata.

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Certified glider pilot/instructor and author Pat Valdata talks about soaring in her novel Crosswind and shares her aviatrix poetry collection Where No Man Can Touch.

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Hiller Aviation Museum founding curator and historian Charles Morgan Evans talks about his new book Helicopter Heroine--Valerie Andre: Surgeon, Pioneer Rescue Pilot, and Her Courage Under Fire

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WP38: Julie Tizard introduces her lesbian romance novel, The Road to Wings, and tells us why she wrote it (hint: Write the book you want to read.)

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WP37: How Rosemary Mariner took on the anti-feminists Phyllis Schlafly and Elaine Donnelly to achieve women’s equality in military aviation

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Book Launch: USAF Thunderbird Demonstration Team pilot Michelle 'MACE' Curran introduces her new picture book Upside Down Dreams and talks about pulling 9 G's for a living

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WP36: Pilot and author Carole Hopson talks about the two major themes in her historical novel about Bessie Coleman, A Pair of Wings: the dawn of aviation and the dawn of the great migration.

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WP35: Author Sherri L. Smith introduces her novel FLYGIRL about a fair-skinned Black woman who passes as white to join the WASP

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Book Launch Available June 1st 2023 - The Firsts: Women Pilots and How They Changed the Airlines, by Mary Bush Shipko

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AN17: Literary Agent Amy Collins talks about what you need to be ready to query agents and publishers based on the genre you’re writing.

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WP34: How Amelia Earhart's birthplace home inspired the middle grade mystery novel The Amelia Six by Kristin L. Gray

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WP33: Air Force Academy grad and retired airline pilot Patty Bear talks about how her father's excommunication from the Mennonite church led to her liberation in the air.

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AN16: The process and impact of publishing memoir with former Army Warrant Officer and Kiowa Warrior helicopter pilot, Amber Smith

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WP32: Former WASP, Nadine Ramsey, purchases a Lockheed P38 Lightning in 1946

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WP31: NYT Best-selling author Kate Quinn talks about the inception for the WWII Night Witch character Nina in The Huntress

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Book Launch - Eileen Bjorkman's FLY GIRLS REVOLT tells the story of women in military aviation from the WASP to the repeal of the Combat Exclusion Policy

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AN15: Publisher Brook Warner of SheWrites Press and Sparks Press on hybrid publishing

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WP30: General aviation pilot Erin Seidemann on the fun and not-so-fun aspects of being a woman in aviation

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WP29: Bush pilot and author of the memoir THEY CALLED ME SKY HUNTER, Myriam Huser, talks about how a relationship in her twenties delayed her progress as a pilot

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AN14: Author and writing professor, Lauren Kessler, talks about how, as a narrative non-fiction writer, she might approach research for memoir

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Three-Eight Charlie publisher Wendy Hollinger, children's author Nancy Roe Pimm, and round-the-world solo pilot Shaesta Waiz talk about Jerrie Mock's inspiring record-setting flight

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WP28: Author Ann McCallum Staats talks about the women pilots and astronauts she highlights in her biography collection High Flyers, including Army helicopter combat veteran, Purple Heart recipient, and U.S. Senator, Tammy Duckworth

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WP27: Airline pilot and SPCA volunteer Erin Mariah Murphy talks about animal air rescue and her picture book Halfway Home

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AN13: LGBTQ+ romance writer and retired Air Force and airline pilot Julie Tizard talks about conflict in storytelling and we both share how we seek and find inspiration to fuel our creativity

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WP26: Retired Air Force Colonel and U2 pilot, Merryl Tengesdal, talks about her path from the Bronx to an electrical engineering degree to U.S. Naval Aviation

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WP25: Bush pilot Myriam Huser talks about the joys and challenges of flying humanitarian missions in Chad with Air Serv.

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AN12: Book Publicist Jen Coburn talks timelines, costs, and the relationship between an author and her publicist.

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WP24: Author Kathy Mexted talks about how Deborah Lawrie fought a ground-breaking equal opportunity case in the Australian courts in 1980 to become the first female airline pilot in Australia.

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WP23: Pilot, journalist, and author Kathy Mexted talks about Australian pilot Patricia Toole and her adventures flying in Papua, New Guinea as the first female commercial pilot in the 1950s.

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AN11: Thriller novelist and co-author of Niloofar Rahmani's memoir, Open Skies, Adam Sikes talks about the challenges of putting emotions on the page.

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