The Song of Rowland: American Culture at Full Volume
Author Russell Rowland interviews creative people from all over America to discuss their creative process, and also explore how culture and the arts fits into today's America.
The Song of Rowland: American Culture at Full Volume
Episode 20 - Alan Grostephan
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Alan Grostephan is the author of The Banana Wars, winner of the 2025 Georgia Author of the Year Award, and Bogotá, a novel chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best ten books of fiction in 2013 and longlisted for the Pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize. He is also the editor and translator of Stories of Life and Death, a collection of writing by emerging Colombian writers. He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from UC Irvine and is a professor at Agnes Scott College. He lived for years in Colombia where he travels extensively and is currently writing about work, dispossession, and land restitution in Latin America. He resides in Decatur, Georgia and is married to the visual artist María Korol. Please listen to my interview with Alan here: