This week we visit with Brooke Champagne in Northport, Alabama.
Brooke Champagne is the author of Nola Face: A Latina’s Life in the Big Easy, a silver medalist in Southern Nonfiction at the 2024 IPPY Awards. She is the recipient of the 2023-2024 Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Fellowship in Prose. Champagne serves as Book Reviews Editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction. She is an Assistant Professor of English in the MFA Program in creative writing at the University of Alabama. New books in the works: Drive-Thru Daiquiri, contracted through LSU Press, and Your Bones Are My Bones, contracted through University of New Mexico Press.
For more on Brooke: brookechampagne.com
Brooke's Books on the Bed:
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector
In Search of Lost Time Volume 1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Matt's Gifts for Brooke:
The Trouble with Loving Poets and Other Essays on Failure by Elizabeth Zaleski
Split the Baby: A Memoir in Pieces by Lauren Rhoades
Female Life on Planet Earth by Laleh Khadivi
