Author Margo Orlando Littell stopped by the Bunker to talk about her latest book, The Distance from Four Points, which is set in Northern Appalachia. Not only that, Margo just moved back to Pittsburgh, making her the ideal Jam guest.
She and Brad sat down to discuss her life growing up in Pennsylvania, finding her way into graduate school, publishing her first book Each Vagabond by Name, traveling, and eventually finding her way back to Appalachia.
About Margo Orlando Littell
Margo Orlando Littell is the author of The Distance from Four Points and Each Vagabond by Name, which were published by the University of New Orleans Press and are set in Northern Appalachia.
Each Vagabond by Name won the University of New Orleans Publishing Lab Prize and an IPPY Awards Gold Medal for Mid-Atlantic Fiction, and was named one of fifteen great Appalachian novels by Bustle.
After receiving an MFA from Columbia and spending many years in Brooklyn and New Jersey, she now lives in Pittsburgh with her family.