Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.

I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.

Our books are already out now.

You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.

And we have a magazine called ZibbyMag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle

features.

That's at Zibbymag.com.

We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.

And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop

at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of

our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.

And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Mary Otis is the author of Burst, and I'm so excited. This is our

Zippy Books published book for the month of April. So congratulations to Mary.

And on behalf of our whole Zippy Books team, we are so, so excited for you. And here is the

episode. Mary Otis is the author of the short story collection, Yes, Yes, Cherries, and now, of course,

Birst. Her fiction essays and poetry have been published in Best New American Voices, Electric Literature, Tin House, of course, burst. Her fiction essays and poetry have been published in

Best New American Voices, Electric Literature, Tin House, Ziziva, McSweeney's, Bennington Review,

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and numerous other literary journals and

anthologies. She has taught fiction at UCLA and was a founding professor in the UC Riverside

Low Residency MFA and creative writing program.

Originally from the Boston area, Mary lives in Los Angeles. Congratulations again, Mary.

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