Anne Gudger

Kathryn interviews Author Minda Honey.In the car she’d had since high school, and with her boyfriend by her side, Minda Honey journeyed cross-country from Louisville, Kentucky to Southern California. By the end of that year, Obama would be president, she’d be single, and everything would change.Thousands of miles away from family and friends, Minda must navigate online dating and new relationships, and the challenges of early adulthood. From steamy hookups to narrow escapes, frustratingly adorable meet-cutes, and confusing relationships, she navigates the all-too relatable realization that nothing ever plays out quite like the romantic comedies of our youth.Minda sets out to redefine what matters most in her life, purely on her own terms. Her essays on politics and relationships have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Oxford American, Teen Vogue, and Longreads.Kathryn also interviews Author Anne Gudger.“I got it.” Anne Gudger uttered those words when she had to do all the hard things, by herself, after her husband – the love of her life – died in an accident when she was six months pregnant with their first child. Now she must navigate the trials of single motherhood, mourning, and learning to love again. Fascinated with the heart and its fifth chamber that holds more love, that holds shadows, she poetically chronicles her passage through grief and the beauty she found on the other side. Crafted with lightning bolts of joy and sorrow, she brings us a tender and lyrical memoir about the dance of loss and life, and how grief can make the heart beat stronger than ever before. is an autobiographical essayist who writes hard and loves harder. She’s been published in Real Simple, Cutbank, Cutthroat, The Los Angeles Review, The Normal School, The Rumpus, and the Columbia Journal.