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Natalie Sypolt lives and writes in Preston County, West Virginia. Her work has appeared in Glimmer Train, Appalachian Heritage, Still: The Journal, Switchback, r.kv.r.y., Ardor Literary Magazine, Superstition Review, Paste, Willow Springs Review, and The Kenyon Review Online, among other journals. She is the winner of the Glimmer Train New Writers Contest, the Betty Gabehart Prize, the West Virginia Fiction Award (selected by Silas House), and the Still fiction contest. She is also an active book reviewer whose work has appeared in Los Angeles Review, Bookslut, Fjords Review, Paste, Shenandoah, Harpur Palate, and MidAmerican Review. Additionally, Natalie serves as a literary editor for the Anthology of Appalachian Writers, on the selection committee for the prestigious Weatherford Award in Fiction, participates in Women of Appalachia (a juried reading series). She coordinates the High School Workshop for the West Virginia Writers Workshop at West Virginia University. Natalie currently works as an Assistant Professor at Pierpont Community & Technical College. Her first collection of short stories is titled The Sound of Holding Your Breath.

SHOW NOTES

In this episode, Arlan interviews West Virginian author, Natalie Sypolt, about her book The Sound of Holding Your Breath. Sypolt’s book is a collection of short stories about average people in Appalachia on some of the worst days in their lives.

In this episode Sypolt discusses:
• The cover of the book
• Her process writing in first person
• If her teaching influences her writing
• What she teaches and the effect it has on her students
• Appalachian who writers have influenced her
• The relation of Appalachian Literature to Southern literature
• What she’s working on now


Mentioned This Episode
The Sound of Holding Your Breath
Sypolt’s Website
Jonathan Hall
Ann Pancake
Robert Gipe
Jayne Ann Phillips
Silas House
Eudora Welty
Flannery O’Connor


Quotes

“I think I probably don’t do as much revision as some people will do because I have the story written in my brain for a long time before I’m able to sit down and put it to paper.” - Natalie Sypolt


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