Inventing Complex Characters w. GENEVIEVE HUDSON

Inventing Complex Characters w. GENEVIEVE HUDSON

Genevieve Hudson is the author of the novel Boys of Alabama: a novel (2020). (Bookshop) Their other books include the critical memoir A Little in Love with Everyone (2018), and Pretend We Live Here: Stories (2018), which was a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist. Their work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Catapult, Bookforum, Tin House, No Tokens, Bitch and other places. They have received fellowships from the Fulbright Program, The MacDowell Colony, Caldera Arts, and The Vermont Studio Center. They are a Visiting Fiction Faculty member at Antioch University-Los Angeles’s MFA Program, a freelance writer, and also work in advertising. They live in Portland, Oregon.

Bonus Segment: Writing the Surreal

Genevieve talks about writing those slippery places at the edge of reality and integrating them into otherwise realist narratives.

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