In this episode of Read Appalachia, Kendra Winchester talks to Madeline ffitch, the author of Avalon, Rise.
Books Mentioned
Avalon, Rise by Madeline ffitch
Stay and Fight by Madeline ffitch
Black Arts by Megan Giddings
Guest Info
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Madeline ffitch is the author of the novel Stay and Fight, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a Lambda Literary Prize, as well as the story collection Valparaiso, Round the Horn. She cofounded the punk theater company Missoula Oblongata and was part of the rural direct action collective Appalachia Resist, which took as its commitments environmental and racial justice. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, Tin House, Granta, and n+1, among other publications. She is the recipient of a Creative Capital State of the Art Prize and two O. Henry Prizes, and her writing was included in The Best American Short Stories 2024. She lives with her children in the hills of Appalachian Ohio.
