AROUND THE STATE: SEE FAR ARTIST RETREAT
I arrived at the Catalpa Retreat house with five bags of snacks, my laptop, and a suitcase full of loungewear. I would be James and Meriget Turners’ first writer-in-residence at their See Far Artist Retreat, a creative retreat space that supports artists at pivotal points in their careers. For me, it was a memoir that had suffered so many rewrites I was afraid it would never see the light of day. Two weeks in a historic plantation home seemed the perfect opportunity to shut out the outside wo
