Wiley Cash

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Wiley Cash

Wiley Cash is the author of four novels, and the founder of This Is Working, an online creative community. Wiley gets up early to write and stays up late to read, and when he’s not writing or reading he spends time exploring the coasts and the mountains of his native North Carolina. Wiley grew up wanting to be a writer, and while he doesn’t quite feel grown up he hopes that he can keep this writing thing going for as long as possible, as he is completely unqualified to do anything else, except for teaching, which he does at the University of North Carolina-Asheville, where he serves as Alumni Author-in-Residence. He lives in North Carolina with his wife, photographer Mallory Cash, and their daughters.

Interviewed 12 November 2022

Ten words to sum up your working life to date ...

Hard work, good fortune, unwavering bookseller support, and crossed fingers.

Nine things you can see from where you're sitting ...

Wedding photograph, books stacked on night table, my hat, the book I’m reading, houseplant, curtains, the sunlight, reading glasses, a doll one of my daughters left on our dresser.

Eight minutes to prepare a meal. What's it going to be ?

Greek salad with pre-cooked chicken.

Seven people you'd like to go for a drink with ...

Barack Obama, my wife Mallory, Brandi Carlile, Elizabeth Warren, James Baldwin, Jeanette Winterson, Colm Tóibín.

Six things you can't live without ...

Books, my kids, my wife, spare time, early mornings, Sunday New York Times.

Five favourite words ...

Brutal, fantastic, exhausted, sweet, hilarious. (These are all hyperbole, but I find myself saying them a lot.)

Four places you'd run away to ...

Asheville, NC; Rome; a cabin in the woods; MacDowell Colony.

Three books you've bought recently ...

Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades, Stolen Focus by Johann Hari, The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade

Two things that make you rant ...

Trump supporters and social media executives.

One thing you'd tell your teenage self ...

Keep going.