Tessa Fontaine

This week we visit with Tessa Fontaine in Asheville, North Carolina. 

Tessa Fontaine is the author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts and The Red Grove, her debut novel. Raised outside San Francisco, Tessa teaches in Warren Wilson’s MFA program, started Salt Lake City’s Writers in the Schools program, and has taught in jails and prisons for years. She co-founded and teaches the Accountability Workshops with writer and pal Annie Hartnett, and lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her daughter, silly dog and sassy cat.

For more on Tessa: tessafontaine.com

Tessa's Books on the Bed:

Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass

Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje

Jazz by Toni Morrison

The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews

We the Animals by Justin Torres

Matt's Gifts for Tessa:

Leaving Biddle City by Marianna Chan

Obit by Victoria Chang

Chooch Helped by Andrea L. Rogers (illustrated by Rebecca Kunz)