Childers, Sarah Beth

Sarah Beth Childers went to a tiny Christian school in Huntington, West Virginia, where she played basketball but never made a shot, ran track but never won a race, and played an old British woman who got strangled in a high school play. She now lives in Richmond, Indiana, where her cat pulled down the living room curtains so she could get a better view of passing cars and her Boston Terrier pried open a gap in the fence so she could play with the dog next door. Sarah Beth wrote about her and her mom s teenage years in her memoir, Shake Terribly the Earth: Stories from an Appalachian Family.