About this episode

Eliot interviews author Anna Rollins about her debut memoir FAMISHED and her experiences in Appalachia.

On the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot interviews author Anna Rollins about her debut memoir FAMISHED. Anna Rollins lives and works in Appalachia. She has taught courses in composition and rhetoric, writing center studies, creative nonfiction, and text analysis for over a decade. Her work has appeared in outlets such as the New York Times, Slate, Salon, Electric Literature, Joyland, Newsweek , and The Today Show .

Topics covered

• memoir
• Appalachia
• writing

Keywords

• FAMISHED
• composition
• rhetoric
• creative nonfiction

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