Host Rachel Hopkin is joined by authors Natalie Richards of Columbus and Fatima Sharafeddine of Beirut, Lebanon.

Richards is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books for young adults. 

Sharafeddine is an award-winning writer and translator of books for children and young adults. She is also a writing tutor. 

Covid Conversations is a podcast series from the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University in which artists and humanities professionals from Ohio and their counterparts elsewhere in the world discuss how their lives and work have been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. 

The series is funded by an OSU Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant and distributed by Ohio Humanities. It is produced and presented by radio producer and folklorist Rachel Hopkin and mastered by Paul Kotheimer at OSU. 

Music for this podcast is provided by Pixabay. 

For more about the Center for Folklore Studies, where the full recordings of each episode will be archived along with contextual information about each episode, please visit cfs.osu.edu. 

To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit ohiohumanities.org.