This week in the Bunker, author and poet Sarah Elaine Smith stops by to talk about her debut novel, Marilou Is Everywhere, “a coming-of-age tale that reveals itself as a parable about race in America.”
But she and Brad also talked about growing up in the country, the joys of “home ownership,” hiking, nature, and snakes. You should probably know, the two of them had a LOT of thoughts about Appalachia. A lot.
About Sarah Elaine Smith
Sarah Elaine Smith is the author of Marilou Is Everywhere (Riverhead Books, 2019), praised widely by NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and others, and selected as a Belletrist book club pick.
She is also the author of a collection of poems, 2012’s I Live in a Hut, winner of the 2011 Cleveland State University first book prize. Smith is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the Michener Center for Writers, and Carnegie Mellon University.
She lives in Pittsburgh, teaching online creative writing workshops via Catapult and also through her own program, Here Be Monsters.
Books
- Marilou Is Everywhere
- I Live in a Hut
