Z Word, LLC, is a writing and editing service established in March 2012, founded and managed by Zinta Aistars. ​"Not just any word. Z Word."Services include expertise in writing and editing ad copy; annual/impact reports and company overviews; brochures, pamphlets and general marketing copy; articles for print and online publications; ghostwriting book manuscripts; family history; manuscript proofing and editing; media relations; newsletters; newspaper reporting; press releases; profiles; proposals; social media; web copy. Her work appears in many print and online magazines. Regular clients include Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media, Kalamazoo College, Encore magazine, Good News newspaper, Western Michigan University, and others. Zinta Aistars is the published author of three books. She was the founder and editor-in-chief of The Smoking Poet, an international online literary magazine that ran for about eight years. Zinta hosts "Art Beat,"​ a weekly radio show on the creative arts on WMUK 102.1 FM, southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate.On Facebook, see www.facebook.com/ZWordLLC Company website, visit http://zintaaistars.wordpress.com/

I interview authors, artists, art curators for at WMUK, focusing on those with a Michigan connection, but sometimes crossing boundaries. Interviews are aired on the radio, but may also be heard online at http://wmuk.org/people/zinta-aistars. In January 2015, I began a weekly literary radio show, called "Between the Lines," "now with expanded scope as "Art Beat," airing every Friday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m.Interviewees have included Doug Stanton, John Smolens, Russell Thorburn, Allison Leota, Scott Stabile, Shaka Senghor, Tom Stanton, Jim C. Hines, Michael Zadoorian, ML Liebler, Sonya and Sean Hollins, David Means, Dinty Moore, Mark Nepo, R.J. Fox, Holly Hughes, Mira Ptacin, Christina Baker Kline, R. J. Fox, Holly Hughes, Dominic Smith, Luanne Castle, Desiree Cooper, Traci Brimhall, Ginger Strand, Iliana Rocha, Combat Veterans Writers Group, T.Geronimo Johnson, Matt Bell, Diane Seuss, Ron Riekki, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Anne-Marie Oomen, Loreen Niewenhuis, Adam Schuitema, Patricia Majher, Marc Zegans, Steven Spruill, James Armstrong and Kim Alan Chapman, Angela Flournoy, Maira Bundza, Susan Harrison, Michael Evans, Morowa Yejide, David Fideler, Frida Berrigan, Yann Martel, Jerry Dennis, Nicolette Hahn Niman, Jane and Ellen Knuth, Anne Hensley, Emily Kastner, Rick Chambers, James Anderson and Kim Chapman, Ladislav Hanka, Katie Platte, Lorrie Grainger Abdo, Sandy Carlson, Hedy Habra, Kathleen McGookey, Larry Massie, Lori A. May, Stanley Steppes, Heather A. Slomski, Deborah Ann Percy, Josh Weil, Mike Harvkey, Philip Levine (national poet laureate), Larry Sawyer, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, Lisa Lenzo, George Dila, Paul Smithson, Andy Mozina, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Marie Bahlke, Shirley Showalter, Joseph Heywood, Joan Donaldson, Mariela Griffor, Gail Martin, Steve Luxenberg, Blaine Pardoe, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, Michael Delp, Bryan Gruley, Kristina Riggle, Vic Foerster, Maryann Lesert, and many others.