Welcome to the first episode of "Our Work and Why We Do It", an audio series from Forbes Library in Northampton, MA. In this first episode, I speak with Susan Stinson, author of the recently reissued "Martha Moody" from Small Beer Press. Susan is also the author of the novels "Spider in a Tree", "Venus of Chalk" (a Lambda Literary Award finalist), "Fat Girl Dances with Rocks", and "Belly Songs", a collection of poetry and lyric essays. She has received the Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Award from Lambda Literary Foundation. Born in Texas, raised in Colorado, she now lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she was Writer-in-Residence at Forbes Library. She has taught at Amherst College and offers writing coaching and editorial services. She is often found on Twitter or at susanstinson.net Music for the episode was created by Kamerin Mcdonald, who's website you can find here: http://kamerinmcdonald.com/