Ep. 22 | The Cost of Creativity
Host Kendra Winchester talks to Neema Avashia and Sarah Lemon about their experience carving out the time to write.
Things Mentioned
Books Mentioned
Daughters of Muscadine: Stories by Monic Ductan
Good Women by Halle Hill
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning by Sarah Stankorb
Wild Witchcraft: Folk Herbalism, Garden Magic, and Foraging for Spells, Rituals, and Remedies by Rebecca Beyer
Guest Info
(c) Neema Avashia
Neema Avashia is the daughter of Indian immigrants, and was born and raised in southern West Virginia. She has been an educator and activist in the Boston Public Schools since 2003, and was named a City of Boston Educator of the Year in 2013. Her first book, Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place, was published by West Virginia University Press in March 2022. It has been called “A timely collection that begins to fill the gap in literature focused mainly on the white male experience” by Ms. Magazine, and “A graceful exploration of identity, community, and contradictions,” by Scalawag. The book was named Best LGBTQ Memoir of 2022 by BookRiot, was one of the New York Public Library’s Best Books of 2022, and was a finalist for the New England Book Award, the Weatherford Award, and a Lambda Literary Award. She lives in Boston with her partner, Laura, and her daughter, Kahani.
(c) Sarah Nicole Lemon
Sarah Nicole Lemon has lived too many lives for her years. From growing up in rural evangelical coal country to graduating college at nineteen and then building roof trusses along the Chesapeake Bay, Lemon has done it all and done it the hard way. While having her three oldest children in her twenties, she wrote Done Dirt Cheap and Valley Girls.
Currently, Lemon works as a brand director and lives in North Carolina with her partner and their four children. She loves music, traveling, and is still susceptible to bad ideas and good stories.
