Swan Huntley
Author Interview - Swan Huntley
Author of Getting Clean With Stevie Green
A newly sober decluttering guru—who can’t seem to declutter the mini wine bottles from her car—moves back home and goes on a quest to figure who was responsible for the scandal that ruined her life 20 years earlier. Her feelings for the two main suspects—both former lovers; one is a man and one is a woman—continue to mystify her until she’s ready to confront the truth.
Author Interview - Swan Huntley
Author I draw inspiration from: Deborah Levy, Samantha Irby, Richard Yates
Author Interview - Swan Huntley | Author I Draw Inspiration From
Favorite place to read a book: Definitely in a reclined position. I often think about how necks are too small to hold up heads. The less pressure I can put on my neck, the better.
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: Tracy Flick from Tom Perrotta’s Election, because I know Tracy would get us out of the elevator.
Author Interview - Swan Huntley | Book Character I’d Like to be Stuck in an Elevator With
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: I’m not sure there was one moment when a bell rang in my head and a voice said, “Be an author!” But I did know from an early age that I wanted to write. When I was 9, my mom gave me my first journal and I wrote in it all the time. The very first entry says, “Today we played dodgeball and I accidentally sat on the ball and somebody said, ‘Swan laid an egg.’”
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: Audiobook for road trips, ebook for travel, hardback or paperback for home. Okay, so I choose all of them.
The last book I read: Love Lockdown by Elizabeth Greenwood. It’s about civilians who fall in love with incarcerated people. If you go visit your lover in prison, you cannot wear stretchy pants. I learned that and many other interesting things from reading this book.
Author Interview - Swan Huntley | The Last Book I Read
Pen & paper or computer: Pen and paper for journaling, computer for work.
Book character I think I’d be best friends with: Rachel Samstat, the heroine of Nora Ephron’s Heartburn, because she’s funny and would cook for me.
Author Interview - Swan Huntley | Book Character I’d be Best Friends With
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a: Stable orthodontist living somewhere I equate with stability, maybe Pasadena.
Favorite decade in fashion history: Sweatpants.
Place I’d most like to travel: Uruguay.
My signature drink: Water, no ice.
Favorite artist: Brittany Fanning. The darkly comedic way in which she depicts the encounter between privilege and disaster makes me smile.
Number one on my bucket list: I want to go hang gliding.
Anything else you'd like to add: She Devil is a perfect movie.
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Instagram: @swanhuntley
Author Bio: Swan Huntley is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her novels include Getting Clean With Stevie Green, The Goddesses, and We Could Be Beautiful. She earned her MFA at Columbia University and has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and The Corporation at Yaddo, where she was the 2019 recipient of The LeSage-Fullilove Residency. Her writings have appeared on Salon, The Rumpus, and Autostraddle, among others.
