Woodroof, Martha

MARTHA WOODROOF was born in the South, went to boarding school and college in New England, ran away to Texas for a while, then fetched up in Virginia. She has written for NPR, npr.org, "Marketplace" and "Weekend America", and for the Virginia Foundation for Humanities Radio Feature Bureau. Her print essays have appeared in such newspapers as the "New York Times, The Washington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle". "Small Blessings" is her debut novel. She lives with her husband in the Shenandoah Valley. Their closest neighbors are cows.