In Conversation With … Amelia Franz, author

Amelia Franz is the author of The Longest Man-Made Beach in the World: Biloxi Stories (Watertower Press). Her fiction and non-fiction have been published in a variety of literary magazines, including Image Journal, Reckon Review, Hippocampus, Prime Number Magazine, and Peatsmoke Journal. Her stories have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best American Mystery and Suspense. Amelia is an educator who most recently taught for the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. She lives in the Baltimore area with her husband and three children, where she is an active member of the Hampden Writing Group and an editor of The Avenue Journal. For more about Amelia, visit her website and follow her on Facebook and Instagram. In this conversation, we talk about being a debut author at 59.