Tin House

And given that her presence looms so large for so many writers who come on the show, from Lucy Ives to Michelle de Kretzer to Olga Raun to Robert McFarlane, it actually would also seem strange not to air it.

Tin House, very unexpectedly, is sending me on a mini regional tour, and it begins with this event, recorded live at Powell's Bookstore.

Past Between the Covers guest, the writer, the publisher of Future Tense Books, and the head of the small press section at Powell's, Kevin Samsel, is the first voice you'll hear introducing the event.

And my interlocutor is none other than Lydia Yuknovich, whose life, like mine, has intersected with that of Ursula's, and whose work, like so many, has been influenced by hers too.

I do wanna mention a few things quickly.

The first is that Sheetal talks about doing the prestigious Tin House Workshop, and I just wanna note that it has since been renamed to the McCormick Writing Center Workshop, in case you're interested in researching that online.

Secondly, I made a big deal recently in episode 43 about Orin Doyle getting teary-eyed on the show, so I just have to say, Orin, it's okay, because in this episode, Sheetal talks about several times during her writing career that she openly wept.

One of them was in a restaurant.

Her novel, Have You Seen Ramit?, won the 2025 James Alan McPherson Prize for the novel, judged by R. O. Kwon.

She is a recipient of the Individual Artist Opportunity Grant offered by the Delaware Division of the Arts.

She is an alum of Tin House and VONA.

She lives in Delaware with her husband and children.

I, I mean, at a, at, like, at a, at a journal, at a-

Yeah, I mean, um, some of them that are coming to mind, uh, Tin House was one.

That, that was-

Mm

She has received support from the DeGroot Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Ohio Arts Council.

A Tin House alumna, she holds a BA in English literature from Davidson College and an MFA in creative writing from the Ohio State University.

Her debut novel, The House Built on Alligator Bones, is out now.

Please welcome Sophia Huneycutt.

I think it's with Atria.

Her last book was White Magic with Tin House.

And then her first book was My Body is a Book of Rules that came out with Redhead and Press, which was what led me to bring my first novel Subduction to Redhead and Press and then Desire Lines, the memoir.

There's something so ruthless, but kind about her work that she's fearless, but she's careful.

He's a writer and a host of the literary podcast called Between the Covers.

His writing is published widely from Orion Magazine to Tin House.

It has garnered a Pushcart Prize, and been reprinted in Best American Science and Nature Writing, Best Spiritual Literature, and The Best Small Fictions anthology.

He's the co-auth- he's also the co-author with Ursula K.

I appreciate that.

Tell us all the good stuff, where to listen.

What's the asso- what's the association or more so with, like, with Tin House?

I'm no longer with Tin House.