# Karen Salyer Mcelmurray

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BSG #44: Four Brunettes and a Book / Magic For Liars / Interview with Karen Salyer McElmurray

Things get a little magical this week as the Book Squad discusses "Magic for Liars" by Sarah Gailey. We cover the inevitable comparisons to those *other* books set in a magical school, how this book works as a mystery novel, and how we feel about our narrator, Ivy. Then, Emily interviews Karen Saly…

Karen Salyer McElmurray reading her essay "Hand-Me-Down"

WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2017 Residency Karen Salyer McElmurray reading nonfiction in the Visiting Writers Series supported with funding from the WV Humanities Council Text of this award-winning essay available online at: http://www.newsoutherner.com/2016/12/13/hand-me-down/

Program for October 8, 2020

(Interior of Cincinnati's Old Main Library)  Not letting a pandemic get in the way, the Kentucky Book Festival is “on” - virtually. | A mini book festival of our own features poet Lynell Edwards; novelists Wesley Browne and Karen Salyer McElmurray; and, the new non-fiction from the Ohio Valley R…

Now, Appalachia Interview with Karen Salyer McElmurray

On the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot welcomes back author Karen Salyer McElmurray to talk about her new book, VOICE LESSONS: ESSAYS. Karen Salyer McElmurray’s Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother’s Journey, was an AWP Award Winner for Creative Nonfiction. Her novels are The Motel of the Sta…

Now, Appalachia Interview with Karen Salyer McElmurray

On the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot welcomes back author Karen Salyer McElmurrary to talk about her new book: VOICE LESSONS: ESSAYS. Karen Salyer McElmurray’s Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother’s Journey, was an AWP Award Winner for Creative Nonfiction. Her novels are The Motel of the St…

BSG #44: Four Brunettes and a Book / Magic For Liars / Interview with Karen Salyer McElmurray

Things get a little magical this week as the Book Squad discusses "Magic for Liars" by Sarah Gailey. We cover the inevitable comparisons to those *other* books set in a magical school, how this book works as a mystery novel, and how we feel about our narrator, Ivy. Then, Emily interviews Karen Saly…

Program for October 8, 2020

(Interior of Cincinnati's Old Main Library)  Not letting a pandemic get in the way, the Kentucky Book Festival is “on” - virtually. | A mini book festival of our own features poet Lynell Edwards; novelists Wesley Browne and Karen Salyer McElmurray; and, the new non-fiction from the Ohio Valley R…

Karen Salyer McElmurray, "Wanting Radiance" (UP of Kentucky, 2020)

Today I talked to Karen Salyer McElmurray about her novel Wanting Radiance (UP of Kentucky, 2020). Fifteen-year-old Miracelle Loving hears the gunshot that kills her mother, and runs to hold her while she dies. She spends the next two decades roaming, fortune telling and picking up odd jobs. Then, …

Karen Salyer McElmurray & Bob Stewart

Send us Fan Mail Bob Stewart wrote “Shadow Boxer” in 1977, decades before he’d ever hear Karen Salyer McElmurray’s name. He wrote it about shadows in general, the kind everyone carries, unnamed. He had no idea it would end up soundtracking a memoir about a mother who surrendered her son at 16 and s…