Wednesday Dec 08, 2021

Post Pub Letdown with James Tate Hill, Renée K. Nicholson, and Megan Culhane Galbraith

Welcome to the Indie Writer Podcast where we talk about all things writing and indie publishing. Today we are excited to be talking about the post-publication letdown with James Tate Hill, Renée K. Nicholson, and Megan Culhane Galbraith.

James Tate Hill is the author of a memoir, Blind Man’s Bluff, released August 3, 2021 from W. W. Norton. His fiction debut, Academy Gothic, won the Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel. His essays were Notable in the 2019 and 2020 editions of Best American Essays. He serves as fiction editor for Monkeybicycle and contributing editor for Literary Hub, where he writes a monthly audiobooks column. Born in Charleston, WV, he lives in North Carolina with his wife.

Megan Culhane Galbraith is a writer, visual artist, and adoptee. She is the author of The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child’s Memory Book, a hybrid memoir-in-essays published by Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press. Her work was Notable in Best American Essays 2021 and 2017 and her writing and art has been published or is forthcoming in HYPERALLERGIC!, BOMB, The Believer, Tupelo Quarterly, Hobart, Longreads, Hotel Amerika, Catapult, and Redivider, among others. She is a graduate of and the Associate Director at the Bennington Writing Seminars and the founding director of the Governor’s Institutes of Vermont Young Writers Institute.

Renée K. Nicholson is the author of the poetry collections, Roundabout Directions to Lincoln Center and Post Script, and coeditor of the anthology Bodies of Truth: Stories of Illness, Disability, and Medicine. She serves as Director of the Humanities Center at West Virginia University.