Sara Wood

Sara Wood travels the South collecting stories as an oral historian for the Southern Foodways Alliance. She’s produced work for public radio and audio for museums and historic sites around the country. She recently finished her MFA in creative writing at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.

Ten Things I Can’t Do Without

1. Music
2. Improvised dance routines in the kitchen
3. Michigan winters (I do understand it’s ten things you can’t live without)
4. Rhubarb pie
5. Waving at strangers
6. Swimming
7. Eudora Welty stories
8. Documentaries (of all forms)
9. Having friends over for dinner
10. My great-grandmother’s sweater (I take it with me for luck on every flight)