This week we visit with Ashleigh Bryant Phillips in Asheville, North Carolina.
Ashleigh Bryant Phillips is from rural Woodland, North Carolina. She's a graduate of Meredith College and earned an MFA from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Her debut short story collection Sleepovers is the winner of the 2019 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, selected by Lauren Groff. Her stories have appeared in The Oxford American, The Paris Review and others.
For more on Ashleigh: ashleighbryantphillips.com
Ashleigh's Books on the Bed:
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please by Raymond Carver
Portraits and Dreams: Photographs and Stories by Children of the Appalachians 1976-1982, 2009-2018 by Wendy Ewald
Bambi by Felix Salten, translated by Damion Searls
Free Day by Inès Cagnati, translated by Liesl Schillinger
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
The Royal Diaries: Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 B.C. by Kristiana Gregory
Matt's Gifts for Ashleigh:
Where the Roots Reach for Water: A Personal & Natural History of Melancholia by Jeffery Smith
Reading Reconstruction: Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post-Civil War South by Kathryn B. McKee
Room Swept Home by Remica Bingham-Risher
