What happens when an atheist poet decides to direct a school for Christian writers? That question begins 鈥� debut novel, 鈥溾�� (Graywolf Press/2019).
Marianne is a struggling poet who is about to lose her Brooklyn apartment. When her ex-fianc茅 asks her to direct a low-residency writing school for Christians in Florida, it seems like a great way to pay back her student loans and get on her feet again 鈥� even though she is an atheist.
But as Marianne develops relationships with the students, she begins to have ethical questions about profiting off of them.
Host Frank Stasio talks to Boggs about her debut novel, for-profit education and the financing of art. Bogg is an associate professor in the and director of the at .
She will be at Malaprop鈥檚 Bookstore in Asheville and at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh
