An Interview with Jayne Anne Phillips

Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of two collections of short stories, Black Tickets (1975) and Fast Lanes (1987, 2000). She has also written three novels; Machine Dreams (1984), Shelter (1994) and most recently MotherKind (2000). She is currently working on a new novel to be published in 2004. Sarah Robertson is currently working on the writings of Jayne Anne Phillips for her doctoral thesis at Keele University. She has written a conference paper on Shelter (1994) and is presently working on Fast Lanes (1987, 2000). The interview arose from the American Mourning Conference held at Keele in May 2001.