Tune in to Write On Radio this Thursday, May 31st, when Host Lynette Reini-Grandell previews the Split Rock Arts Writing Program, speaking with poet Carolyn Forche, and author Catherine Watson.

And later on in the show, Host Ian Graham Leask speaks with reknowned Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh about his new novel, Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs.

About Carolyn Forche:

Carolyn Forche is the author of Gathering the Tribes, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award; The Country Between Us, which received awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry Society of America; and The Angel of History, awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Centuly Poetry of Witness. Recently she was presented with the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation Award for Peace and Culture in Stockholm. She lives in Maryland with her husband and son.

About Catherine Watson:

Catherine Watson, the Minneapolis Star Tribune's first travel editor, was the newspaper's chief travel columnist and photographer from 1978 to 2004. A readership survey taken near the end of her tenure showed that more than half of the newspaper's Sunday readers regularly turned to her travel section--an estimated 550,000 people a week. Watson's many national awards include the two most important in her field: Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year and the Society of American Travel Writers' Photographer of the Year. Catherine Watson lives in Minneapolis.

About Irvine Welsh:

Irvine Welsh is an acclaimed contemporary Scottish novelist, most famous for his novel Trainspotting, which was adapted as a play, and as a film adaptation, written by Johnny Hodge, directed by Danny Boyle, released in 1996. Welsh is known for writing in his native Edinburgh Scots dialect. His other novels include, The Acid House, Marabou Stork Nightmares, Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, Filth, Glue, Porno, The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs, and most recently, If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work. He has also written plays and screenplays, as well as directed several short films. He currently divides his time between Dublin, London, Scotland and Miami, Florida.