This month Juliana speaks with author Gina Chung on her new story collection, Green Frog, which explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformation as a means of survival. Conversations with Animals is a monthly conversation hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with animal lives. Subscribe here: animal.julianaroth.com #vegan #animals #grief #shortstories #fiction #memoir #ginachung #koreanfolktales #nycwriters #fantastical #julianaroth #podcast Juliana is a writer, professor, filmmaker, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. A 2022-23 Emerging Writer Fellow at The Center for Fiction, she currently teaches writing at NYU. Get in touch: www.julianaroth.com