Denise Smith Cline in Conversation with Michel Stone

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Set during the Great Depression, The Resettlement of Vesta Blonik is the story of two strong-hearted strangers, bent but not destroyed by grief and financial destitution. Vesta Blonik, an unmarried farm woman from Minnesota and Gordon Crenshaw, confined to a North Carolina mental institution after the death of his wife and child, meet through misleading letters written by Gordon’s family members. But reality doesn’t look at all like what was promised, and when they learn the truth, the two must find a path forward, together or apart.

Denise Smith Cline is an author and lawyer born and raised in Upstate South Carolina. Her short stories and essays have won recognition and prizes, including a Pushcart Prize nomination. Her work has also appeared in Press 53 Magazine, Mamalode, Carolina Woman, the News & Observer and The Shoal. The Resettlement of Vesta Blonik is her first published full-length novel. Denise currently resides in Raleigh, NC. Find her online at denisescline.com.

Michel Stone is a former board chair and tremendous fan of the Hub City Writers Project! She is the author of the novels Border Childand The Iguana Tree, and the forthcoming Fig Days coming from Regal House Publishing early next year. She is the winner of the Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters, the Patricia Winn Award for Southern Literature, and the South Carolina Fiction Award. Michel has published numerous stories and essays and her novels have been favorably reviewed from The New Yorker to the San Francisco Chronicle and many places in between. She is at work on her fourth novel.

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