The Tiferet Talk Interviews
By Melissa Studdard
Purchase Link: Amazon
Book Synopsis
The
Tiferet Talk Interviews is a fascinating collection of twelve interviews
transcribed from the Tiferet Talk Radio show, hosted by Melissa Studdard. Some
of the world's most notable writers and spiritual leaders share their thoughts
on writing, tolerance, and the world we live in today. Gain incredible insight
into their perspective on ways to tell the truth of our lives, access
creativity, and balance magic and craft. The Tiferet Talk Interviews includes a
special introduction by Donna Baier Stein and interviews with Julia Cameron,
Edward Hirsch, Jude Rittenhouse, Marc Allen, Arielle Ford, Robert Pinsky, Dr.
Bernie Siegel, Robin Rice, Jeffrey Davis, Floyd Skloot, Anthony Lawlor, and
Lois P. Jones.
My Review
Melissa
Studdard’s book contains a compilation of transcribed interviews from the radio show
she hosts, Tiferet Talk Radio. Studdard’s radio show guests are highly
respected artists, writers, and spiritual leaders. Creativity is a part of my
daily life, so I was really looking forward to reading The Tiferet Talk
Interviews.
I
took away a great deal from the book. I
need a physical copy of The Tiferet Talk Interviews, so that I can highlight quotes and fill it with sticky
tabs of ideas because it’s a fascinating resource for creative people. For me, it’s one of those books that
you’ll always want to go back and reread for deeper insight.
The
Tiferet Talk Interviews is about breaking down the walls that we build to
protect our insecurities, exposing ourselves and making art. It’s about working
not waiting, and getting in touch with our spiritual selves. I was left with a
feeling of excitement and motivation to try some of the activities mentioned in
the interviews.
Author Bio
Melissa Studdard is the
author of the bestselling novel Six Weeks to Yehidah, and
its companion
journal, My Yehidah (both on All Things That
Matter Press). Since its August 2011 release, Six Weeks to Yehidah has
been the recipient of many accolades, including the Forward National
Literature Award, the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award and January
Magazine's best children's books of 2011. It was also named a finalist
for the National Indie Excellence Awards and the Readers Favorite Awards. Along
with Scott Lutz, Melissa is co-author of For the Love of All (Trestle
Press), which is the fifth story in the Mark Miller’s
One series and debuted in the number one spot for Hot New Releases in
Literary Criticism and Theory in the Amazon Kindle store. As well, her poetry,
fiction, essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in numerous magazines,
journals, and anthologies. Melissa currently serves as a Reviewer-at-Large
for The National Poetry Review, an editorial advisor for The
Criterion, and an editor for Tiferet Journal, where
she hosts the journal's radio interview program, Tiferet Talk.
Melissa received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is a professor for the
Lone Star College System and a teaching artist for The Rooster Moans Poetry
Cooperative. She loves anything related to writing and reading, whether it's
sitting alone with a book and a cup of hot tea, or attending a large poetry
reading or literary festival. She also loves travelling, meditating, going for
walks, bicycling, practicing yoga, and spending time with family. She
currently resides in Texas with her wonderful daughter and their four sweet but
mischievous cats. To learn more, please visit www.melissastuddard.com. 
Donna
Baier Stein’s writing has appeared in Virginia
Quarterly Review, Kansas Quarterly, New York Stories, Prairie Schooner,
Washingtonian, many other journals and anthologies from Simon &
Schuster and The Spirit That Moves us Press. Her short story collection was a
Finalist in the Iowa Fiction Awards and will be published, as Sympathetic
People, in 2013 by Serving House Books. She has received the PEN/New
England Discovery Award for Fiction, a Johns Hopkins University Writing
Seminars Fellowship, Bread Loaf Scholarship, a grant from the New Jersey
Council of the Arts, prizes from the Poetry Council of Virginia, two Pushcart
nominations, and an Honorable Mention in the 2013 Allen E. Ginsberg Poetry
Awards. Her poetry chapbook Sometimes You Sense the Difference was
published in 2012 by Finishing Line Press. One of her stories was performed by
Tony-award winning actress Maryann Plunkett at Playwrights Theatre in Madison,
NJ. Donna was a Founding Editor of Bellevue
Literary Review and founded and currently publishes Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature (www.tiferetjournal.com.) She is also an award-winning
copywriter. Her website is www.donnabaierstein.com.
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