Writers on Record

I sit down with fiction author Michelle Hoover. Michelle is the author of two novels and is the Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University and teaches at GrubStreet, where she leads the Novel Incubator Program. She is a 2014 NEA Fellow and has been a Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, a MacDowell Fellow, and a winner or the PEN/New England Discovery Award. Her first novel, The Quickening, was published in 2010 and was based on her grandmother's journals during the Great Depression. It was a Massachusetts Book Award "Must Read" pick and one of the Poets and Writers Top 5 debut novel of 2010. Her newest book, Bottomland, follows the Hess family in the years after World War I as they struggle to piece together what happened after two members vanish in the middle of the night. It is a story that hooks you not only with its premise and content, but also with its detailed, unique characters and expert lyricism.