This week we visit with Alice Martin in Waynesville, North Carolina.

Alice Martin is a writer, reader, and teacher from North Carolina. She holds a PhD in Literature from Rutgers University and works as an Assistant Professor of English Studies at Western Carolina University, where she teaches fiction writing and American literature. She lives outside of Asheville, North Carolina with her husband, her son, and too many typewriters. Westward Women is her debut novel.

For more on Alice: alicejmartin.com

BUY WESTWARD WOMEN

Alice’s Books on the Bed:

The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray's Diary by Jennifer Sinor

Envelope Poems: Poetry by Emily Dickinson (edited by Jen Bervin and Marta Werner)

If I Had Two Wings: Stories by Randall Kenan

The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

Bad Behaviour by Mary Gaitskill

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

Matt’s Gifts for Alice:

The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook

Call It Horses by Jessie van Eerden

Girl’s Girl by Sonia Feldman (forthcoming June 2nd)