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Feb 2020

1h 23m

Atticus: Author + Instagram Poet

Cloud10 and iHeartPodcasts

About this episode

Atticus is the anonymous New York Times Bestselling author of Love Her Wild, The Dark Between Stars and The Truth About Magic. He joins Sophia on "Work In Progress" to share how he got into poetry and why he decided to post it on Instagram, why he values anonymity, what inspires him, and much more.

Executive Producers: Sophia Bush & Sim Sarna

Supervising Producer: Allison Bresnick

Associate Producer: Caitlin Lee

Editors: Josh Windisch and Matt Sasaki

Music written by Jack Garratt and produced by Mark Foster

Artwork by Kimi Selfridge

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This episode is sponsored by Modern Fertility, Liquid IV, Uber, Hello Fresh and Third Love.

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