On the heels of a global pandemic\, two po st-menopausal Appalachian women\, one black\, one white\, abandoned hearth \, home\, and spouses shrugging in dubious wonderment to live and study ab road together in a university flat along Scotland's River Ayr.
\nThe hilarious\, rousing and deeply meaningful record of that journey by poet E.J. Wade and novelist Karen Spears Zacharias is the recently published The Devil&rsquo\;s Pulpit &\; Other Mostly True Scottish Misadventures. They&rsquo\;ll share these tales (and others that may or m ay not have made it into the book) as a part of this special presentation.
\nDuring their time in Scotland the co-authors roamed from the dept hs of Finnich Glen to the outcroppings of Dunure Castle. Sometimes wishing they'd been raised by Buddhist Monks instead of by foul-mouthed chain-smo king Appalachian mothers\, these two University of the West of Scotland gr ad students embraced the wandering spirits of their matriarchal ancestors and left no ScotRail ticket unused.
\n&ldquo\;Part travel journal\, part memoir\, part story about a friendship\, The Devil&rsquo\ ;s Pulpit &\; Other Mostly True Scottish Misadventures se amlessly weaves together prose and poetry like a harmonic musical chord\," says Marjory Wentworth\, former South Carolina Poet Laureate and author o f One River\, One Boat: Occasional Poems and Other Stories. "Root ed by a mutual longing for information about family history\, poet E.J. Wa de and prose writer Karen Spears Zacharias travel to Scotland\, 'where / m yth and legend riddle reality' to discover fundamental truths about where they come from and who they are in the world. Both writers bring an anthro pological perspective to every encounter\, creating a text that resonates far beyond these pages."
\nE.J. Wade is an award-winning poet whose wo rk has been published in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers\, Women Spea k\, Salvation South\, and Callaloo Literary Journal. She holds an EdD in D isability and Equity in Education from National Louis University\, an MA i n Appalachian Studies from Shepherd University\, and an MA in Creative Med ia Practice from the University of the West of Scotland. Karen Spears Zachar ias is an American writer whose ten previous books and numero us articles focuses on women and justice. She holds an MA in Appalachian S tudies from Shepherd University and an MA in Creative Media Practice from the University of the West of Scotland. A Georgia native\, she lives at th e foot of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon.
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