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My guest today is a best-selling writer and multiple, literary award nominee. She’s a graduate of Colorado College, earning both a BA in English and a master’s degree in education. She has dedicated her life to educating children and helping women navigate fertility treatment with confidence and hope. She is a national and international speaker on IVF, fertility, family building, women's history, and her experience as an in vitro pioneer. She made headlines in 1983, giving birth to one of the world's first IVF babies, known as "Colorado's Miracle Baby." Welcome to Authors Over 50, Ellen Weir Casey.

My guest today, when not busy writing, spends his time as a college professor with both an M.A. in Education and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. He hosts a weekly podcast on the Comics in Motion Podcast network, where he critically analyzes indie comics and graphic novels. His Austen Chronicles, a modern-day Young Adult series, is a reimagining of the Jane Austen novels. He shares his empty nest with his wife, a librarian, and they read books and watch sunsets. Welcome to Authors Over 50, A.R. Farina.

My guest today grew up in the time of Prohibition and bootleggers. Her father was one of the first rum runners in the country and was murdered by the Mafia in a turf war at the age of 29. My guest was just two at the time. Now 101, she still writes every day with the perseverance and commitment of a woman half her age. “The truth is liberating, but sometimes elusive.” She explains. “I’m always looking for it and how to best write about it, and I probably always will.” Welcome to Authors Over 50, Babette Hughes.

My guest today earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio Wesleyan University, where she studied Ancient Greek. Years later, she earned a Master of Sciences in Nursing from Ohio State University. Years later still, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from Ashland University.

She lives and writes in Ohio in a house she and her husband built out of discarded things. As a psychiatric nurse practitioner since 2008, she operates a solo mental health practice where she does everything from cleaning the toilet to writing prescriptions. Welcome to Authors Over 50, Amanda Irene Rush.

My guest today has always lived a life on the move, having grown up hiking, camping, and canoeing with her family. As she entered what she had lovingly dubbed “the last third of her life,” she realized she wasn’t ready to slow down. In fact, what she needed was her greatest achievement yet. Along with her husband Jim, she walked for 98 days and 1400 miles. Welcome to Authors Over 50, Kathy Elkind.

My guest today is a writer, meditation teacher, and Buddhist practitioner. With graduate degrees in computer science and counseling psychology, she worked in software development management before moving into the non-profit sector as the executive director of an organization working with underserved children and families in Honduras. Her passions are family, meditation, teaching mindfulness, spirituality, writing, talking with close friends, and walking in nature. She lives in the greater Boston area with her husband of more than thirty years. Welcome to Authors Over 50, Liz Kinchen.