Coffee With The Authors: Teresa Scollon

Coffee With The Authors is a series of conversational interviews with local, regional, and state authors about the art, craft, and process of writing. GAAC Gallery Manager Sarah Bearup-Neal talks with writers — poets, essayists, memoirists, fiction writers, historical fiction writers, writers of creative non-fiction – and explores how a writer works and thinks.

Building A Story

Teresa Scollon, Traverse City poet and teacher, talks about her 2012 volume To Embroider The Gound With Prayer, creating a collection of poems that consider her father’s illness + death, with humor, love, and humanity, bringing in the voices of his family, friends, and neighbors to build the portrait; and a new volume, No Trouble Staying Awake.

The video interview will become available below on July 1, 2025.

Many thanks to the Cottage Book Shop and the Glen Lake Community Library for their support of Coffee With The Authors.