Press

INTERVIEWS

“How the Tree Doctor Explores Finding Joy in the Midst of Pandemic Pain,” OC Register

“Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s American Journey,” Kirkus

“Literary Sustenance,Bay Area Book Festival

Meet the Heartland Evangelicals Who Feed America,” LA Times

“Everyone’s baking bread at home now, and America’s wheat doesn’t harvest itself,” Salon

Lit Hub asks five authors seven questions, no wrong answers,Lit Hub

Marie Mutsuki Mockett with Eric Farwell,Brooklyn Rail

The Power of Culture,Electric Literature

An Exploration of Grief, Post-Tsunami, in ‘Where the Dead Pause,'” NBC News

On Fukushima’s Anniversary, a Japan of Great Gifts,Christian Science Monitor

Studio Visit: Marie Mockett,” for the Asian American Writers Workshop

Honest Travelers,” for Fiction Writers Review

RADIO/PODCAST

“On Writing About Sex,” First Draft Podcast

Episode 617: Marie Mutsuki Mockett,” The Drunken Odyssey 

“Marie Mockett Stresses the Importance of Writing with Urgency,” Authorlink

Little Break,” literary podcast

Feminism, Mockett, Memoir, Religion,” Inkslingers Podcast with Jenny Skoog

Interview with Marie Mutsuki Mockett,” Reading Women podcast with Kendra Wilkinson

Marie Mutsuki Mockett on Food Waste and Farming,” Sheltering, with Maris Kreizman

Marie Mockett on Embedding with American Christianity,” First Draft

Divine Summer Reading,” Commonweal

Write On!” KFAI Minneapolis. St. Paul

An Urbanite’s Journey to Understand the Heartland,” KERA Think (Dallas/
Fort Worth NPR)

American Harvest,” Good Grief with Cheryl Jones

“Friday Live,Nebraska Public Radio

“Book Riot Podcast,” Earth Day Reads

“The Avid Reader Podcast”, The Avid Reader Show

“Sea Change Radio” 

“Farm Talk with Mick Kjar Part One,” KQLX, Fargo, ND 

“Farm Talk with Mick Kjar Part Two,” KQLX, Fargo, ND 

“American Harvest: God, Country and Farming in the Heartland,” Farm to Fork

“Heroes Journeys End Far Differently Depending on Their Country of Origin,” The World, NPR

After Father’s Death, A Writer Learns How the Japanese Say Goodbye,” All Things Considered, NPR

“Sunday Morning With, 70th Anniversary Bombing of Nagasaki: A Legacy” BBC Scotland

Good Grief With Cheryl Jones,” Voice America

A Chat with Dr. Alvin Jones,” Dr. Alvin Jones, the Most Trusted Name in Wisdom

Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye,” Locus Pocus, KBOO

Digital Human, Series 6, Abandon, BBC Radio 4

As Independence Vote Approaches, A Spirited Novel About the Scottish Experience,All Things Considered, NPR

Head Over Heels For ‘Boys Over Flowers’All Things Considered, NPR

Japan’s Northeast Coast, Before and After the Quake,Talk of the Nation, NPR

Japan’s Broken Coast Struggles to Recover” for Talk of the Nation, NPR

TV/FILM

“Encounters,” Netflix

American Harvest,” CSPAN 

“American Harvest on RFD-TV,” RFD-TV

Venerating the Departed,” Tomorrow Japan, NHK

“Book Discussion: Janice Nimura and Daughters of the Samurai,” CSPAN

LECTURE

“How to Enlarge Your Heart,” Newport Beach Public Library, Newport Beach, California. Additional Video.

SELECTED VIRTUAL CONVERSATIONS/INTERVIEWS

March 2024: Conversation with Meghan Majumdar, sponsored by Books are Magic. Playback.

March 2024: Conversation with Shanthi Sekaran, sponsored by Green Apple Books. Playback.

April 2021: Conversation with Garnette Cadogan, sponsored by City Lights Bookstore. Playback.

June, 2020: Conversation with poet and writer Paisley Rekdal, sponsored by Magic City Books. Tulsa, OK. Playback.

May, 2020: Conversation with Tea Obreht, sponsored by Watermarks Bookstore. Playback.

April, 2020: Conversation with writer Alan Heathcock, sponsored by Rediscovered Books in Boise, Idaho, on Instagram Live. Playback here!

April, 2020:  “American Harvest” launch event, sponsored by The Center for Fiction. Marie was in conversation with Marlon James, and Juston Wolgemuth. See the recorded event.