Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive

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at Zibby Owens. Kiona Harris is the author of Mainline Mama, a memoir. Kiona is a brighter

storyteller, mother of five, prison abolitionist, activist, and academic, born and raised in Watts and other

parts of South Central Los Angeles. She has won several honors, including a 2018-19-Pen-American

writing for Justice Fellowship, a 2021 Tin House summer residency, a 23 Baldwin for the Arts residency,

and a 2023 Hitchfrick Fellowship as the 2023 Edith Wharton

Writer in Residence. She is a 2024 Haymarket Writing Freedom Fellow and a postdoctoral

scholar at the University of Washington and the Department of Health Systems and Population

Health. She is developing the Borderland Project, a mental health and community support system

for women.

She lives in Seattle.

Welcome, Kiana.

Thanks so much for coming on to talk about meanline mama, a memoir.

Thank you for having me.

I'm so excited to be here today.

Thank you for sharing your really powerful story.

This is completely transformative in so many ways. All the things that you have gone through

that you write about so beautifully, who you advocate for, it's really impressive. And even just

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