This week on the Mississippi Arts Hour, Leslie talks with writer and teacher, Catherine Simone Gray. An Emerging Writer in Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, her work has been published in The Bitter Southerner and The Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape. Catherine is the creator of the blog Unsilenced Woman and recently released her first book, PROUD FLESH: A MEMOIR OF MOTHERHOOD, INTIMATE VIOLENCE, AND RECLAIMING PLEASURE. In the interview, Catherine will discuss how she came to write this book, her creative process, and what it means to be a Mississippi writer.

Tune in to hear their conversation this Sunday at 5 p.m. on MPB Radio or anytime by subscribing to the Mississippi Arts Hour podcast.

Photo Credit: Jess Bollaert Eddleman