This week we visit with Elisa Faison in Carrboro, North Carolina. 

Elisa Faison is a writer and freelance editor living in Carrboro, North Carolina with her partner and two-year-old twins. Her debut novel SKIN CONTACT will be published on June 23, 2026. She has published stories in The Missouri Review, Electric Literature, Smokelong Quarterly, and more. Her story “Motherlove” was the recipient of the 2024 Peden Prize, awarded by The Missouri Review and judged by Rachel Yoder. Her story “Group Sex” was the third most-read story in Electric Literature in 2023. Elisa formerly worked as a bookseller at Flyleaf Books and the book reviews editor of The Carolina Quarterly. She holds a PhD in English from The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she specialized in twenty-first century climate change novels.

ORDER AND READ SKIN CONTACT!

For more on Elisa: elisafaison.com/

Elisa's Books on the Bed:

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

Girlhood by Melissa Febos

The Lover by Lily King

Ulysses by James Joyce

Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

Matt's Gifts for Elisa:

The End of Romance by Lily Meyer

The Computer Room by Emma Ensley

Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake