A remotely-recorded podcast interview with Steven Wright, University of Wisconsin Clinical Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project. Prof. Wright also lectures in the creative writing department.
Prof. Wright (Twitter: @stevenhwright) discusses his new debut novel, The Coyotes of Carthage. He talks about his background in both law and creative writing and how he came to the University of Wisconsin- Madison for an M.F.A. after receiving his J.D. and clerking for a federal judge.
Prof. Wright also talks about the process of writing his novel and calls himself a “literary Forrest Gump”- meaning that he’s been in the right place at the right time. He based his novel on his experience working with voting rights law.
