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)