This week we visit with Meredith McCarroll in Portland, Maine.
Meredith McCarroll was born and raised in Waynesville, North Carolina. She is the author of “Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film” (2018) and co-editor of “Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy” (2019). She graduated from Appalachian State University, and later earned a Masters from Simmons College and a PhD from University of Tennessee. She lives now in Portland, Maine where she writes and teaches writing.
For more on Meredith: meredithmccarroll.com
Meredith's Books on the Bed:
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Sleepovers: Stories by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
Cane by Jean Toomer
Trampoline by Robert Gipe
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project
Matt’s Gifts for Meredith:
The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
Cinema Ann Arbor by Frank Uhle (designed by Story Made Project’s own Nathaniel Roy!)
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