Conversations from Byron
Stranger Care: Sarah Sentilles in conversation with Ashley Hay
Produced in collaboration with Griffith Review, Sarah Sentilles talks with Ashley Hay about her latest works. They discuss her essay, ‘Creation Stories’, from Griffith Review 73: Hey, Utopia! as well as Sarah’s new memoir Stranger Care.
In this insightful discussion, Ashley and Sarah discuss many topics, including the collision between bureaucracy and love, the nature of creativity and the ability of art to change the way we see the world.
Stranger Care is the moving story of what one woman learned from fostering a newborn — about injustice, about making mistakes, about how to better love and protect people beyond our immediate kin. Stranger Care is available to purchase online via The Book Room Collective.
‘Creation Stories’ is an essay about the world-making power of art. Published in Griffith Review 73: Hey Utopia!, available to purchase online here.
Thanks to Delta Kay, Arakwal Bundjalung woman, for the Welcome to Country on this podcast.
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About the authors
Sarah Sentilles
Sarah Sentilles is the author of five books, including Draw Your Weapons and Stranger Care. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Divinity School, she lives in Idaho’s Wood River Valley.
Ashley Hay
Ashley Hay is an award-winning novelist and essayist and the editor of Griffith Review.
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