L2L March 9, 2018 True Lit

True Lit

Nancy Brandon, Amy Paige Condon, Judy Fogarty, Christina Kelly, and K. W. Oxnard

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About the Writing Group

True Lit is a successful writing group based in Savannah, Georgia. The members of True Lit are all published writers—including several novels and a non-fiction book deal signed with a major university press—and many of them have taught or currently teach courses in writing and literature.

About the Authors

Over the past two decades, Nancy Brandon has taught college composition in Savannah, Georgia, and she has published four college writing textbooks. She also is the author of two novels: Dunaway’s Crossing— for which she was selected as a finalist in 2013 for the Georgia Author of the Year Award—and Show Me a Kindness. In her works of fiction, Nancy draws on her small-town Georgia roots and an affinity for the past to craft stories about everyday people overcoming obstacles that come from living in the rural South. She is currently working on a third novel that is set during the Great Depression. Nancy Brandon has spoken about all of her novels on prior episodes of Listening to Literature.

Amy Paige Condon has Master of Fine Arts in writing from SCAD. She is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook, as well as The Wiley’s Championship BBQ Cookbook, which was named the best cookbook of 2014 by the National Barbecue News. She also recently launched The Refinery Writing Studio to help others with the craft of writing, she is co-editor of the recently released companion book to the Page Rippers 2018 art exhibition, and she is currently writing a biography of former Miami News editor Bill Baggs for the University of Georgia Press. Amy Paige Condon has spoken about her cookbooks, her biography on Baggs, and Page Rippers on prior episodes of Listening to Literature.

Judy Fogarty earned a master’s degree in vocal performance from the University of Illinois and enjoyed a long career as a marketer of private golf communities, including The Landings on Skidaway Island. Her début novel, Breaking and Holding, was published in 2016, and she will be speaking about this book on Listening to Literature in May. She also has just completed her second novel, Moon. A native Savannahian, Judy Fogarty lives, writes, reads, and runs on the Isle of Hope and is a devoted—even rowdy—tennis fan.

Speaking of tennis fans … Christina Kelly is a graduate of Vassar College and holds a Master of Fine Arts in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has been editor-in-chief of Boca Raton magazine, a college English professor, a freelance magazine writer, and a cruciverbalist. Her début novel, Good Karma, was published by HarperCollins last summer, and Christina and this novel were recently featured at the 2018 Savannah Book Festival. She lives with her husband, Bill, and their rambunctious Boston terrier on Skidaway Island. Judy Fogarty has spoken about Good Karma on a prior episode of Listening to Literature.

K. W. Oxnard is a Savannah native and holds an Master of Fine Arts in fiction writing from New York University. Her fiction appears in literary magazines such as Tahoma Literary Review, Story, Madison Review, and Reed, and she has published dozens of op-eds in the Savannah Morning News. Her fiction has been a finalist for the Southwest Review’s David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction; the River Styx Schlafly Beer Micro-Brew Micro-Fiction contest; the WOW! Women on Writing Flash Fiction Award; and the Sarabande Books Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Her work also has been published in anthologies such as Desire: Women Write About Wanting; Not What I Expected: The Unpredictable Road from Womanhood to Motherhood; Texting: Clear Communications for Various Contexts; and My Life With Charles Fraser. For many years she taught writing at New York University, Harvard Extension School, Radcliffe Seminars, University of Southern Maine, and Armstrong State University, and she is currently at work on a historical novel set in 20th-century Savannah and New Orleans.