By Erin Wood
Consider supporting Arkansas authors as you give the gift of words this holiday season. With variety for every literary taste, here are a few classics and new releases by Arkansas writers.
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou (1969)
- True Grit, Charles Portis (1968)
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, Dee Brown (1970)
- The Brief History of the Dead, Kevin Brockmeier (2007)
- Something to Write Home About: Memories from a Presidential Diarist, Janis F. Kearney (2008)
- Southern Gods, John Hornor Jacobs (2011)
- The Alchemy of My Mortal Form, Sandy Longhorn (2014)
- The President Next Door: Poems, Songs, and Journalism, Philip Martin (2015)
- The Accidental Salvation of Gracie Lee, Talya Tate Boerner (2016)
- The Geeks Guide to the Writing Life, Stephanie Vanderslice (2017)
- The Mud & The Lotus: A Guide and Workbook for Students of Yoga, Courtney Butler-Robinson (2017)
- A Love Story Waiting to Happen, Crystal C. Mercer (2018)
- What’s Inside: A Century of Women and Handbags, 1900–1999, Anita Davis (2018)
- Black & Kiddo: A True Story of Dust, Determination, and Cowboy Dreams, Brenda Clem Black (2018)
- Incandescent: Poems, Kai Coggin (2019)
- Women Make Arkansas: Conversations with 50 Creatives by Erin Wood (2019). (Shameless plug for the 50 inspirational women featured in my book!)
Children’s and YA titles:
- Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene (1973)
- Let the Children March, written by Monica Clark-Robinson and illustrated by Frank Morrison (2018)
- Christmas on the Tree, Claire, Leslie, Henry, and Charlie Wallace (2019)
- Lifestyles of Gods & Monsters, Emily Roberson (YA title released October 22, 2019)
A Hot Springs native, Erin Wood is a writer, editor, and publisher in Little Rock. She owns and runs Et Alia Press (etaliapress.com). Wood is author of Women Make Arkansas: Conversations With 50 Creatives (April, 2019) and editor of and a contributor to Scars: An Anthology (2015).
