Gretchen Anthony
GRETCHEN ANTHONY is the author of Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners, which was a Midwestern Connections Pick and a best books pick by Amazon, BookBub, PopSugar, and the New York Post. Her forthcoming book, The Kids Are Gonna Ask, will be released on July 28, 2020. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Medium, and The Write Life, among others. She lives in Minneapolis with her family.
Twitter: @Granthony
Instagram: @GretchenAnthony.Writer
Is there another profession you would like to try?
I dream about taking on a new profession just about every day. I'm perpetually in search of something to rescue me from the pain of trying to craft the perfect sentence, paragraph, book, oeuvre (alright, I admit I only said oeuvre because having been raised in the woods, I don't think I've ever used that word in a sentence. (And fine, you caught me, I was raised in the suburbs. But I have been to the woods. (Many times, in fact. I can even split wood. With an ax. Speaking of...))). Maybe I'll look into becoming a lumberjack tomorrow.
Have you ever experienced Imposter Syndrome?
Did you intend that question to be in the past tense? I experience imposter syndrome every time I open Twitter or read the daily book news. In fact, I have so much anxiety that I'm never going to be good at this author thing that my therapist told me to give my anxious feeling a name. It helped. I call her Pam. She hates it.
Vacation druthers… City or Rural destination? Why?
See lumberjack skills, above. (Though in all seriousness, give me sunshine and a body of water and I can lose myself for days.)
Do you have another artistic outlet in addition to your writing? Do you sew? Paint? Draw? Knit? Dance?
I dabble in all sorts of things. I sew, I knit, I sing, I produce unskilled, kindergarten-esque crafts. I've got a high creative drive and I need to do something every day -- most of it just well enough to embarrass my children.
What’s your favorite comic strip or graphic novel?
The Far Side by Gary Larson. His "Cow Poetry" comic still makes me laugh thirty years later ("Damn the electric fence!"). I wish he was producing new work, but perhaps today's world has surpassed even Mr. Larson's sense of the bizarre but funny.
