Meredith McCarroll

This week we visit with Meredith McCarroll in Portland, Maine. 

Meredith McCarroll was born and raised in Waynesville, North Carolina. She is the author of “Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film” (2018) and co-editor of “Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy” (2019). She graduated from Appalachian State University, and later earned a Masters from Simmons College and a PhD from University of Tennessee. She lives now in Portland, Maine where she writes and teaches writing.

For more on Meredith: meredithmccarroll.com

Meredith's Books on the Bed:

Heavy by Kiese Laymon

Sleepovers: Stories by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

Cane by Jean Toomer

Trampoline by Robert Gipe

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project

Matt’s Gifts for Meredith:

The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty

Cinema Ann Arbor by Frank Uhle

Three Rivers Cornmeal Mix