Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now.

Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or

less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this

podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature,

wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can

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but really you're here to learn more about the authors,

and that is what we're going to do.

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Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Bernadine Iveristo is the author of Manifesto on Never Giving Up.

She is the 2019 winner of the Booker Prize for Girl, Woman Other, which was a number

one national bestseller and winner and finalist of many awards,

including the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Dublin Literary Award.

Iveristow is the author of eight other books that explore aspects of the African diaspora.

Her writing spans verse, fiction, short fiction, poetry, essays, literary criticism, and drama.

Iverista is Professor of Creative writing at Brunel University London,

an honorary fellow of St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, and vice president of the Royal Society of Literature.

She received an obi in 2020 and lives in London with her husband. Her most recent book is Manifesto.

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