Katerina Stoykova-Klemer hosts Accents Radio every Friday from 2-3PM on 88.1 WRFL Lexington. This week’s guest is Elaine Neil Orr, author of the memoir Gods of Noonday: A White Girl’s African Life and the new novel A Different Sun.

Growing up in the savannahs and rain forests of Nigeria, Orr’s parents remained there during the country’s civil war while she left at sixteen and studied creative writing and literature at the University of Louisville. She earned a Ph.D. in Literature and Theology at Emory University and is an award-winning professor of literature and creative non-fiction at North Carolina State University. She is also on the faculty at Spalding University’s low-residency MFA program.

Her memoirs and short fiction have appeared in The Missouri Review, Shenandoah, Blackbird, Prime Number, and Image Journal as well as earning her several Pushcart Prize nominations. She has earned grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Don’t forget to tune into Accents Radio today at 2PM on 88.1 WRFL. For past episodes (as well as this one once it’s available), check out the program archive at KaterinaKlemer.com.

Click here for Elaine Neil Orr’s website.
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