Caitlin Garvey
Author Interview - Caitlin Garvey
Author of The Mourning Report
Author I draw inspiration from: Anne Carson (especially her book Nox)
Author Interview - Caitlin Garvey
Favorite place to read a book: The bathtub
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: Eeyore, since I wouldn’t feel bad for complaining
Author Interview - Caitlin Garvey
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: I was 9, and my mom started cutting random sentences out of the newspaper and made my sister and me write short stories using those lines
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: Hardback
The last book I read: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
Author Interview - Caitlin Garvey
Pen & paper or computer: pen and paper (less distraction)
Book character I think I’d be best friends with: Pippi Longstocking
Author Interview - Caitlin Garvey
If I wasn’t an author, I’d be a: professor. I’ve been an English professor for the last few years but would like to teach more creative writing classes in the future
Favorite decade in fashion history: the 90s
Place I’d most like to travel: Greece
My signature drink: milkshake
Favorite artist: My sister Meaghan Garvey
Number one on my bucket list: Beat Joey Chestnut in Nathan’s national hot dog contest
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Author Bio: Caitlin Garvey is a writer and English professor in Chicago. She has an MFA in creative writing from Northwestern University. Her work has been published in Post Road Magazine, JuxtaProse Magazine, Apeiron Review, The Baltimore Review, The Tishman Review, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and others.
Her forthcoming memoir, The Mourning Report (Homebound Publications, 2020), is about losing her mother to cancer and collecting the stories of the people who played a role in her mother's care.
Author Interview - Caitlin Garvey
