Join McIntyre’s Books for an Authors Event: Appalachian Magic, Featuring Karen Salyer McElmurray, Annie Woodford & Gary Phillips on Sat, Apr 25, 11am-12pm. This spectacular trio will share the magic of Appalachia.

This free event takes place indoors. Free parking is available on-site. The space is wheelchair accessible. No pets allowed. Fearrington Village is part of the Chatham County Craft Beverages & Country Inns Trail. See more events at Fearrington Village.

AUTHOR BIOS

Karen Salyer McElmurray writes both fiction and creative nonfiction. Her memoir, Surrendered Child, won the AWP Award Series for Creative Nonfiction and was listed as a “notable book” by the National Book Critics Circle. She is also the author of Motel of the Stars, Editor’s Pick from Oxford American, and a Lit Life Book of the Year.  Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven (University of Georgia Press), a novel that won the Lillie Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing, and, most recently, Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, co-edited with Adrian Blevins, from Ohio University Press.  Her essays have won the Annie Dillard Prize, the New Southerner Prize, the Orison Magazine Anthology Award, and have been Notable several times in Best American Essays.  A collection of her essays is forthcoming from Iris Books.  Her newest book, a novel called Wanting Radiance, will be released in April 2020 from the University Press of Kentucky.

Annie Woodford is a renowned poet and native of Bassett, Virginia. She is the author of Peasant, Where You Come from Is Gone, recipient of the 2022 Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry, Bootleg, and her micro-chapbook, When God Was a Child. Most recently, she was part of the poetry anthology Had I a Dove: Appalachian Poets on the Helene Flood, the proceeds from which go to support Hurricane Helene relief efforts.

Gary Phillips is the former poet laureate of Carrboro, North Carolina. He is a writer, naturalist, and entrepreneur. He lives in a rammed-earth house with his wife, Ilana Dubester. Gary avidly reads poetry and anthropological science fiction, studies amphibian activity on full-moon nights, and was once the chair of the Chatham County Board of Commissioners. He has two published books of poetry, The Boy The Brave Girls (2016), Human Error Publishing (Wendell, Mass), and Subjects Suitable for Poetry (2023), Charlotte Literary Press.