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Author and podcaster, Christy Alexander Hallberg, on her book, Searching for Jimmy Page, her writing process, rock novels, and the definition of “rock” music.

November 21, 2022 by Patricia Furnish

Related Show: Southern Reckoning


Christy Alexander Hallberg is the author of the award-winning novel ‘Searching For Jimmy Page’, from Livingston Press.

She is also the host of Rock is Lit: A Podcast About Rock Novels, from Pantheon Podcast Network.

Her short fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as ‘North Carolina Literary Review’, ‘storySouth’, ‘Still: The Journal’, ‘Main Street Rag’, ‘Fiction Southeast’, ‘Riggwelter’, ‘Deep South Magazine’, ‘Eclectica’, ‘Litro’, ‘STORGY Magazine’, ‘Entropy’, and ‘Concho River Review’.

Her creative nonfiction essay “The Ballad of Evermore” was a finalist for the ‘Sequestrum’ 2020 Editor’s Reprint Award. Her flash story “Aperture” was chosen Story of the Month by ‘Fiction Southeast’ for October 2020, and selected by the editors of the Best Small Fictions anthology series for inclusion in the 2021 edition.

She teaches literature and writing online at East Carolina University, where she earned her BS and MA in English. She received her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Goddard College. In addition to teaching, Christy serves as Senior Associate Editor of ‘North Carolina Literary Review’. She is a former editor of #FridayFlash USA at ‘Litro’ magazine.

A native of eastern North Carolina, she now lives in the western part of the state on the outskirts of Asheville, near the Great Smoky Mountains.

Host of Rock is Lit podcast

Author of novel ‘Searching for Jimmy Page’

Senior Associate Editor of ‘North Carolina Literary Review’

Website: www.christyalexanderhallberg.com


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