Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

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