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