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Each Other's First and Last Editor: Writing Couple Ted Chiles and Chella Courington

December 24, 2022 Drema Drudge Season 1 Episode 6
Each Other's First and Last Editor: Writing Couple Ted Chiles and Chella Courington
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Each Other's First and Last Editor: Writing Couple Ted Chiles and Chella Courington
Dec 24, 2022 Season 1 Episode 6
Drema Drudge

On this episode, Barry and I talk with a wonderful writing duo, Ted Chiles and Chella Courington.

Chella Courington (she/her) is a writer and teacher whose poetry and fiction appear in numerous anthologies and journals including DMQ Review, The Los Angeles Review, and Anti-Heroin Chic. She was raised in the Appalachian south and now lives in California with another writer and two feline boys. Her recent microchaps of poetry are Good Trouble, Origami Poems Project; Hell Hath, Maverick Duck Press; and Lynette’s War, Ghost City Press. Her novella, Adele and Tom: The Portrait of a Marriage, will be re-released by Impspired Magazine (England) in February 2023. Twitter: @chellacouringto  Instagram: chellacourington  Web Page: chellacourington.net


Ted Chiles has published short stories, flash fiction and nonfiction in a variety of literary journals. In his former life he taught economics, the most dramatic of the Social Sciences. He lives in Santa Barbara, California with a writer, two avocado trees and two cats.

You'll enjoy hearing how two authors navigate the writing life in the same household. 


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On this episode, Barry and I talk with a wonderful writing duo, Ted Chiles and Chella Courington.

Chella Courington (she/her) is a writer and teacher whose poetry and fiction appear in numerous anthologies and journals including DMQ Review, The Los Angeles Review, and Anti-Heroin Chic. She was raised in the Appalachian south and now lives in California with another writer and two feline boys. Her recent microchaps of poetry are Good Trouble, Origami Poems Project; Hell Hath, Maverick Duck Press; and Lynette’s War, Ghost City Press. Her novella, Adele and Tom: The Portrait of a Marriage, will be re-released by Impspired Magazine (England) in February 2023. Twitter: @chellacouringto  Instagram: chellacourington  Web Page: chellacourington.net


Ted Chiles has published short stories, flash fiction and nonfiction in a variety of literary journals. In his former life he taught economics, the most dramatic of the Social Sciences. He lives in Santa Barbara, California with a writer, two avocado trees and two cats.

You'll enjoy hearing how two authors navigate the writing life in the same household.