ABOUT THE HOSTS:
“I AM A STORYTELLER…”
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Heather Buchanan is a producer and publisher. The founder of AUXmedia, a production company headquartered in TechTown Detroit, Buchanan is the Executive Producer of Solomon (2020), a Sundance Institute-supported film, and When the Swan Sings on Hastings, shot on location in Hamtramck and a producer on its spin-off series, Hastings. The writer-producer of the upcoming CEO, based on the memoir of Flint industrial titan Willie E. Artis and his youth on the road with the “King of the Blues” B.B. King, Buchanan specializes on building projects that support communities. A graduate of Wayne State University and the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Heather is a past COO for the Wayne County Council for Arts, History & Humanities and the recipient of a Proclamation from the City of Detroit. Heather is the writer-producer of Dark River, a series set in French Colonial Detroit. She is currently developing a Motown-era drama. Buchanan is the Executive Producer of Pure Land, a multicultural drama that spans to Japan. Closer to her home city, Buchanan is the producer of Detroit Stories: A Motor City Podcast.
The owner and publisher of the award-winning Aquarius Press/Willow Books (which launched AUXmedia), Buchanan publishes many of the nation’s top poets and writers. She directed the Willow Arts Alliance, residencies for writers of color and the Writers @ The Carr residency for Detroit-area youth. Buchanan will publish Black Fire: This Time, an anthology of many of the nation’s greatest poets, writers and playwrights, including the works of Alice Walker, Denise Nicholas and Ishmael Reed.
Buchanan received a Proclamation from the City of Detroit. A past Poet-in-Residence for the Detroit Public Library, Buchanan served as COO of the Wayne County Council for Arts, History & Humanities and currently serves on the board of LATITUDE Chicago.
"I hope to always write poems that touch and stories that move. The other way around is good too." - F.G.S.
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Felecia Studstill is a Detroit area poet, author, artist, entrepreneur, real estate professional, amateur photographer, and consultant from the Detroit area. She is a graduate of Florida A&M University's School of Business & Industry with a B. S, in Accounting, a certified alternative investment analyst, and a former winner of the Wayne County Artist Among Us award for poetry.
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Never Much for Small Talk, a collection of poetry and short stories, and Formed From Red Clay, her debut novel about life, love, and aging, are now available under her pen name F. G. Studstill. Her second novel, based on a family story about a late 1800s lynching, is in process.