Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018
This interview was originally recorded for IGTV, which you can find over on Reading Women's Instagram account @thereadingwomen. A special thanks to Joe's Place Bookstore for hosting us, and, of course, to Tessa for sitting down with me to chat about her book The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts.
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Author Bio
Tessa Fontaine is the author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts. Other writing has appeared in Glamour, The Believer, Creative Nonfiction, Literary Hub and elsewhere. She has taught writing and performance in prisons and founded the Salt Lake City Writers in the Schools program. She also eats fire and charms snakes, among other sideshow feats.
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