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Today's Interview: Poet Sara Moore Wagner talks about her new book Hillbilly Madonna

WEKU | By Cheri Lawson

Published December 14, 2022 at 10:23 AM EST

Poet Sara Moore Wagner holds a copy of her new book Hillbilly Madonna

Sara Moore Wagner is an urban Appalachian poet.

She is the winner of numerous awards including the 2021 Cider Press Review Editors Prize for her book Swan Wife, and the 2020 Driftwood Press Manuscript Prize for Hillbilly Madonna.

She is also a 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award recipient.

Her poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies. She currently lives in West Chester, OH with her husband and three children, and she teaches Creative Writing at Northern Kentucky University.

Sara Moore Wagner talks about her latest book, Hillbilly Madonna

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Cheri is a broadcast producer, anchor, reporter, announcer and talk show host with over 25 years of experience. For three years, she was the local host of Morning Edition on WMUB-FM at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Cheri produced and hosted local talk shows and news stories for the station for nine years. Prior to that, she produced and co-hosted a local talk show on WVXU, Cincinnati for nearly 15 years. Cheri has won numerous awards from the Public Radio News Directors Association, the Ohio and Kentucky Associated Press, and both the Cincinnati and Ohio chapters of the Society for Professional Journalists.

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