It’s hard to sum up this episode. Author Melanie Conroy-Goldman stopped by the Jam Bunker to talk about her latest book, The Likely World.
But, as we do here, we took a left turn through her work in prison literacy, her brief stint with AmeriCorp teaching Spanish (which she didn’t speak) in Compton, and through her fascinating life in words.
About Melanie Conroy-Goldman
Melanie Conroy-Goldman is the author of The Likely World, a novel from Red Hen Press. A Professor of Creative Writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, she was a founding director of the Trias Residency for Writers.
Her fiction has been published in Southern Review, StoryQuarterly, in anthologies from Morrow and St. Martin’s and online at venues such as McSweeneys.net. She also volunteers at a maximum security men’s prison with the Cornell Prison Education Program. Her work is represented by Bill Clegg at the Clegg Agency.
She lives in Ithaca, New York with her husband, daughter and step-daughters.
