Interview with First Novel winner Susan Tekulve

In the Garden of StoneSusan Tekulve’s “In the Garden of Stone,” published by Hub City Press in Spartanburg and released officially this week, won the biennial South Carolina First Novel Competition, administered by Hub City Press and the South Carolina Arts Commission.

The novel recounts the lives of Sicilian immigrants in the mountains of Appalachia, and it is at once a departure for Tekulve and a familiar condensation of the sort of fiction she loves to write: stories about purposeful people defined by geography and circumstance.

Tekulve lives in Spartanburg and teaches writing at Converse College. On the occasion of her debut novel, The Post and Courier asked her a few questions about her writing.

Read the interview.

Via: The Post and Courier