Michael talks with Sarah Fawn Montgomery about blue collar roots, a teacher who fostered a passion for literature, writing poetry while procrastinating, previous books including QUITE MAD: An American Pharma Memoir, her new essay collection HALFWAY FROM HOME, losing her father while finishing the book, connecting the personal to the conceptual, collection organization as Tetris, writing effective entry points to brief sections of writing, efficiently capturing specificity, a novel on submission, and more.
Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of Halfway from Home (Split/Lip Press). She is also the author of Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir (OSU Press) and the poetry chapbooks Regenerate: Poems of Mad Women (Dancing Girl Press), Leaving Tracks: A Prairie Guide ( 2017), and The Astronaut Checks His Watch ( 2014). Her poetry and prose have appeared in Brevity, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Electric Literature, LitHub, New England Review, The Normal School, Passages North, Poetry Foundation, The Rumpus, Southeast Review, Terrain, and numerous other journals and anthologies.
Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.