Pixel Rainbow asked Katie Crouch:

Numerous female characters in your novels come from the south. You yourself are a southern bell and this reflects in your literary work. What is the most important/defining difference that makes females born and raised in the southern United States, true southern women?

Katie Crouch Wow. That's an awesome question. I can't speak for all souther women, but I think a lot of us have a very distinct sense that we are FROM somewhere special. I don't like in the South now, but I will always be southern. I recently wrote an article for Garden and Gun about this. http://gardenandgun.com/article/city-...

"A topic that has been preoccupying me lately is what it means to be a San Franciscan. I know only a handful of natives—throughout the years, almost all of my friends have been transplants. Many are Southerners. We huddle together on New Year’s, eating hoppin’ John and collards; we put on hats and drink bourbon until we fall down on Derby Day. (Or we did, before the kids.) I’ve met people from New York, Chicago, Boston, New Jersey. But hardly any from San Francisco.

Yet my daughter screeched her way to life in a hospital room with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge. I want her to have an identity. I, like most forty-year-olds with a wandering spirit, have weathered some storms. And always, in times of confusion, I’ve been able to crawl back to who I am: a Southerner. Rock-solid from-ness. I drive slowly and wave at people. I curl my hair before swimming. I believe manners are more important than money. When I meet another Southerner in this strange land, we lean slightly toward each other, like lost magnets."

thanks so much for asking!! KC

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