Katy Simpson Smith on Writing a Southern Woman Louder Than Herself
Lit Hub (April 2023)
An Anecdotal Mind
Novel Excerpt, Terrain (April 2023)
Giving a Body to a Novel About Plants
BookPage (April 2023)
7 Novels Overgrown with Plants
Electric Literature (April 2023)
The Weeds
Novel Excerpt, Granta (April 2023)
In Praise of Wildness
Garden & Gun (March 2023)
What It Means When Miscarriage Is a Crime
Washington Post (August 2022)
Twinning with Eudora Welty
Paris Review (March 2020)
Viewing Blackness Through the Lives of the Medici
Lit Hub (March 2020)
7 Poetry Collections by Women Rewriting History
Electric Literature (March 2020)
Place: Putridarium
Los Angeles Review of Books (March 2020)
Dancing in the Streets
Real Simple (February 2020)
Tiny Travels Column
Oxford American (April - December 2019)
Why My Students Don’t Call Themselves ‘Southern’ Writers
Lit Hub (March 2019)
More than Mardi Gras: An Insider’s Guide to New Orleans
Airbnb Magazine (February 2019)
How Our Grandmothers Disappeared into History
Zócalo Public Square (June 2018)
Horse Experience: Notes on Recovery from the Louisiana Floods
Catapult (August 2017)
Arts: Conservation on Canvas
Garden & Gun (June/July 2017)
Half-Drawn Hispaniola
South Writ Large (August 2016)
Homeplace: Crescent City Charmer
Garden & Gun (June/July 2016)
America’s Best Diners: Mississippi
Extra Crispy (June 2016)
The Occasional Ardent Hug
Lenny Letter (May 2016)
On House Bill 1523
Lit Hub (April 2016)
Five Things Right Now
Granta (April 2016)
Who Can Fictionalize Slavery?
Lit Hub (March 2016)
Cat
Excerpt from Free Men, Granta (January 2016)
Motherhood, Writerhood, and Calling a Job a Job
Lit Hub (November 2015)
On Being a Writer from Jackson
Oxford American (June 2015)
Other Links
Statement of Mississippi Writers Opposing HB 1523, Jackson Free Press
How to Come Home Again, TEDxJackson Talk
Modern Chat with the Mississippi Museum of Art, Part One and Part Two
Historical Fiction Panel at the Mississippi Book Festival (with Howard Bahr, Steve Yates, Jeffrey Stayton, and Matthew Guinn)
Panel at the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival (with Nathan Filer and Jonathan Gottschall)
Reading and Discussion at the Center for Fiction (with Anita Shreve)
Podcast, HarperAudio Presents
Book Trailer for The Story of Land and Sea
Book Trailer for Eine Geschichte von Land und Meer
