Idra Novey is the author most recently of a book of prose poems, Exit, Civilian, selected for the National Poetry Series, and a novel, Ways to Disappear, forthcoming from Little, Brown in 2016. Her writing hasappeared in Slate, Poetry, and on NPR´s All Things Considered.
Darcey Steinke talks about her new novel, Sister Golden Hair, motherlessness, the Southern cult of femininity, and how becoming a woman has changed since she came of age in a small city in the Blue Ridge Mountains.