Three Mississippi Authors Discuss Their Debuts
Addie E. Citchens, Robert Busby, and Nadia Alexis discuss their debut works at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 26 at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics on the University of Mississippi campus in a panel moderated by Beth Spencer.
Citchens, who was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and lives in New Orleans, is the author of Dominion. She said her novel is “a story of how the church makes heroes and monsters out of men and how sometimes the two are indistinguishable.”
Busby, who grew up in Pontotoc and lives in Memphis, penned Bodock. He has a BFA from the University of Mississippi and an MFA in fiction from Florida International University. His book of short stories focuses on the fictitional town of Bodock, Mississippi, during the real-life ice storm of 1994.
Although Alexis is from Harlem, New York, she earned an MFA and a PhD from the University of Mississippi, and lives in Brookhaven, Mississippi. She is the author of Beyond the Watershed, her first collection of poems and photography.
Addie E. Citchens, Robert Busby, and Nadia Alexis discuss their debut works at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 26 at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics on the University of Mississippi campus in a panel moderated by Beth Spencer.
Citchens, who was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and lives in New Orleans, is the author of Dominion. She said her novel is “a story of how the church makes heroes and monsters out of men and how sometimes the two are indistinguishable.”
Busby, who grew up in Pontotoc and lives in Memphis, penned Bodock. He has a BFA from the University of Mississippi and an MFA in fiction from Florida International University. His book of short stories focuses on the fictitional town of Bodock, Mississippi, during the real-life ice storm of 1994.
Although Alexis is from Harlem, New York, she earned an MFA and a PhD from the University of Mississippi, and lives in Brookhaven, Mississippi. She is the author of Beyond the Watershed, her first collection of poems and photography.
Artwork by Charlie Buckley, Soybean Neon
