Letitia Trent

About me

Gender Female
Location United States
Introduction Letitia Trent's books include the novels Almost Dark and Echo Lake, the poetry collection One Perfect Bird, and the chapbooks The Women in Charge and You aren't in this movie. Her work has appeared in 32 poems, Fence, Black Warrior Review, Diode, Smokelong Quarterly, and Sou'Wester, among others. Trent's short story, Wilderness, was nominated for a Shirley Jackson award and included in Best Horror of the Year Volume 8, edited by Ellen Datlow. Trent is part of the horror podcast The Brood. She lives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, with her husband, son, and three black cats. Photo by K Michelle Johnson
Interests poetry, baking, tarot cards, yoga, psychology, meditation, religions, breakfast cereal, walking, jogging, film, crochet
Favorite Movies Only Lovers Left Alive, Mulholland Drive, A Tale of Two Sisters, Suspiria, Cabaret, Heavenly Creatures, Punch Drunk Love, North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief, Arsenic and Old Lace, Jude, Sense and Sensibility, no country for old men, his girl friday, Vertigo, Marnie, The Descent
Favorite Music Emma Ruth Rundle, Mitski, Tamaryn, Henry Purcell, Gillian Welch, Johnny Cash, Interpol, Kristen Hersh, Philip Glass, Jens Leckman, Morrissey, The Smiths, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Frank Sinatra, Joni Mitchell, The Doors, joy division, picastro, glass candy, Beirut, Niyaz, Neko Case, Lia Ices, Kathleen Edwards, Sun Kil Moon, Kurt Vile, Gustav Mahler
Favorite Books Alice Fulton, MFK Fisher, Barbara Guest, John Ashbery, Shirley Jackson, Ramsey Campbell, Wallace Stevens, Joyce Carol Oates, Caitlin Kiernan, John Fowles, Alice Munro, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Jane Austen, Alice Adams, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel West, Lucie Brock-Broido, George Oppen, Sylvia Plath, Lyn Hejinian, AS Byatt, Harry Crewes, Ange Mlinko, Stephen Graham Jones, George Saunders, Marilynne Robinson, the Bronte sisters, Tana French, Brenda Shaughnessy