Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Kalla Harris.

A full-time daydreamer, KALLA HARRIS has wanted to be an author since she was eight years old--although she's now traded her composition notebooks for a computer. When she's not writing high-stakes young adult books with lots of kissing, you can find her curled up with a good story, perfecting her mac and cheese recipe, or rewatching The Vampire Diaries (Hi, Damon!). Kalla resides in the Upstate of South Carolina with her husband.

In this episode, you'll hear about:

• the inspiration behind the vampires in THE GROUND THAT DEVOURS US
• the Vampire Diaries as core lore
• what makes a monster, what makes us human
• advocacy in publishing spaces as a chronically ill writer
• Aaron Warner Anderson
• How to change your life without (literally) losing your head
• The importance of frozen grapes

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A warm thank you to Deore for our musical number. You can find more of her creative work on Spotify.

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