Are you looking for the perfect gift for the reader in your life? Lucky for Arizonans, there are many local authors writing everything from romance and non-fiction to middle-grade and picture books.

Interviewees: Alma Weiser, director of Heaven Gallery; Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum curator of modern and contemporary art at the Block Museum of Art; Asha Iman Veal, associate ...