Updates from the Wisconsin woods
Save the date: Carol Dunbar is coming to the Boston area for an author event!
I am so thrilled to offer an event for my East Coast family and friends in the Boston area of Massachusets. Save the date and RSVP for your seat. Wine and light snacks will be served in the historic Book Ends bookshop surrounded by brick sidewalks in downtown Winchester. Event starts at 7 pm.
A Winter’s Rime featured on WTMJ: The Morning Blend
Carol Dunbar, author, former actor, playwright and coloratura soprano joins us to talk about her recently released novel, "A Winter's Rime." A novel about looking to nature to find what it can teach us about bearing hardship and expanding our capacity to forgive—not just others, but ourselves.
How Do You Know When It’s Done?
What a tree taught me about letting go after working on a book for 12 years.
An in-depth conversation with MPR host Kerri Miller
Novelist Carol Dunbar lives in the woods of northern Wisconsin, and it shows in her new book, "A Winter's Rime." It follows 25-year-old Army veteran Mallory Moe as she struggles to come to grips with her past during a bleak Midwest winter.
— MPR NEWS with Kerri Miller
Episdoe September 15, 2023
What Writing Under the Constant Threat of Deluge Taught Me about the Creative Process
It felt like a monsoon, but we were not outside, there was no wind or sky; we were in my writing studio on the second floor of a water tower. Whenever I do creative work, I do it with two, two-hundred-and-fifty-gallon tanks of water overhead.
4 Things I Learned About Trauma While Writing My Latest Novel
Sometimes, when we hear a label or a term, and we think we know what it means, we stop paying attention. The word trauma turned out to be one of those terms I thought I understood.
A Winter’s Rime Featured on WDIO: The Lift
“I was doing a lot of research, I was reading reports, I interviewed a lot of experts,” she said. “And then my first big realization was, oh, I’m writing about PTSD. And I was surprised by that.”
Douglas County writer launches second novel
Carol Dunbar's second novel, "A Winter's Rime" looks inward to healing from trauma.
Feature: Superior Telegram, September 2023
Booklist Review of A Winter’s Rime
"Dunbar’s rich depiction of a brutally crystallized Wisconsin landscape reflects the callous cruelty endured by her characters…her treatment of [PTSD and trauma] is unflinchingly raw but unwaveringly compassionate."
— BOOKLIST
Issue: August 2023, Booklist.
Off-grid novelist's new book connects brutal winter and healing trauma
In the remote northwoods of Wisconsin, Mallory Moe is having a difficult time adjusting to civilian life. She's fresh out of military service, living with her abusive girlfriend in an off-grid cabin and grappling with PTSD symptoms related to a traumatic childhood. Although she's seeking solace in the rugged solitude that only sparsely populated, natural settings can provide, she soon learns she needs people — specifically an injured, clearly traumatized young woman who appears in the woods one night — to begin peeling back the layers of what haunts them both.
Maggie Ginsberg, Madison Magazine
