Both callings [novelist and psychotherapist] feed each other, and I don’t see them as totally distinct.
Ian Woollen is the author of the novels Hoosier Life & Casualty, Uncle Anton's Atomic Bomb, and Stakeout on Millennium Drive, which won the 2006 Best Book of Indiana Fiction Award.
His short fiction has been published in a variety of journals including The Massachusetts Review, Juked, decomP, The Smokelong Quarterly, and The Mid-American Review, from which he received a Sherwood Anderson Prize.
Note: This half-hour interview aired in the same hour as the Amitav Ghosh interview on August 2nd.