Tema Kaiser Silk
Commentary Editor/ReporterTema Silk is the editor for NEPM's award-winning commentaries, which she’s been involved with since 2010. A contributing reporter, she has also been involved in launching a couple of news-related special projects for the station: Media Lab, our youth radio project, and Words in Transit, the PRNDI award-winning collection of narratives of immigrants, refugees, asylees and undocumented people living in NEPM's listening area.
The various hats she’s worn at the station have allowed her to take advantage of earlier jobs she’s had teaching both as a middle school English teacher and — long, long ago — working as a licensed independent clinical social worker. Sometimes, and only when the coast is completely clear, she sings songs from the American Songbook and classical works in the NEPM hallways.
She can be reached at tema_silk [at] nepm.org.
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Ellington, Connecticut, author Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo leaned to rock climb in order to write her third book. She also met Ndengo Gladys Mwilelo, a New Haven resident and refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Together they wrote "Each of Us a Universe," the story of two 11-year-old girls: American-born Cal and Rosine, a Congolese refugee. -
West Hartford, Connecticut, author Ethan Rutherford says his latest collection of short stories, “Farthest South,” is about “the fever dream of… -
In "Riot Baby" — a new novel from New Haven writer Tochi Onyebuchi — a young Black girl named Ella discovers she has powers that can help rid the world of… -
Dan Román began composing as a young teenager growing up in Puerto Rico. He doesn't know why he started, exactly — just that simply playing instruments… -
Many kids are fascinated by sharks, but most shark books are pitched to younger readers. So Karen Romano Young decided to write a comprehensive book on… -
In Connecticut, third- and fourth-graders study the history of their state. In many schools, students choose to research one person or event from an… -
Today, many composers don't perform on the instruments they write for -- they compose for other musicians. It wasn't that way centuries ago. Think Bach or… -
If you were to get to every game of the Hartford Yard Goats this season -- which starts this week -- and arrive before the first pitch, you'd hear 70… -
The next pick for our summer fiction series is a cyber-thriller replete with a steamy romance. "My Immaculate Assassin" is by David Huddle, a poet,… -
The final episode of this series of "Words in Transit" features stories of immigrants from Bhutan and Slovenia and their work today to help other new…
