A near-native New Mexican, Katherine Durack has in recent years found her inspiration in the people, history, and settings of Cincinnati’s urban core. Her first book, Unmentionables: A Woman’s Journey, Body to Soul, speaks to how she moved through personal and professional crises and traveled from her childhood home in the southwest to create a new life in the  midwest. From the desert to the city, she makes her home amidst the “everyday extraordinary” that she finds in her neighbors and her surroundings, whether around the town, across the street, or just outside her windows. She shares her thoughts and observations—her Urban Dwellings—in 2- to 3-minute audio essays, broadcast periodically on Cincinnati Public Radio, WVXU 91.7 FM or podcast here.