Interview: Tracy Higley on Creating from an Inner World of Joy

Matt and Mandy sit down with fellow novelist Tracy Higley to discuss writing and the concept of an inner world of Joy. A prolific novelist, Tracy sees art as stemming from an urge to communicate, often an urge that comes from an inner world of joy. Tracy, Many and Matt discuss joy as a longing sparked by beauty that awakens us to more than the everyday, how this situates us in the Great story, and the internal obstacles to creating art.

 

Find Tracy’s recent novel Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time here: https://tracyhigleybooks.com/products/nightfall-in-the-garden-of-deep-time