SLR: When did you first start writing stories?  When did you know you wanted to spend you life writing? DA: My father fought a boxing chimpanzee when I was two years old.  I heard that story told over and over from the time it happened, and by the time I was four, I was telling […]

SLR:  Hi Dr. Sullivan. Let’s start from the very beginning for those who don’t know you. Where were you born and raised in Mississippi? CS: Born and raised in Mississippi. Lived for a while in Louisville, Kentucky and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., but mostly in in Mississippi. SLR:  I understand your background to be in philosophy and […]

Mississippi native Steve Yarbrough is author of the PEN/Faulkner finalist Prisoners of War. SLR: You were born and raised in Mississippi.  Do you find it easier to write about Mississippi while living elsewhere, or harder? Yarbrough: I’ve never found it to be all that hard. Mississippi has a storytelling culture.  People talk endlessly about things […]