About me
Mitzi Rapkin is the founder, host, and producer of the podcast, First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing, which features in-depth conversations with today’s most distinguished literary writers of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and essays. Her archive contains more than 560 interviews accumulated over 12 years. She reads a book a week to produce up to 52 episodes a year and each episode meticulously covers issues of literary craft, creativity, and the themes of a writer’s work. Inevitably and consciously, she cultivates conversations that evolve from talking about the mechanics of producing a work of art to questions on what it means to be human, the mystery and awe of being in relationship with one another, and empathy. She got her start in radio at KBUT in 1998.
