# Author Kelly Mustian on Now, Appalachia Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/now-appalachia-17360/author-kelly-mustian-on-now-appalachia Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/now-appalachia-17360/author-kelly-mustian-on-now-appalachia.md Podcast: ["Now, Appalachia"](https://stenobird.com/podcast/now-appalachia-17360) Published: 2025-04-29T21:53:34+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eliot-parker/episodes/Author-Kelly-Mustian-on-Now--Appalachia-e3261g8 Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/be50c08/podcast/play/101958600/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-3-29%2Fdde312e0-dc09-365b-61e9-31c4386da08d.m4a Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/now-appalachia-17360/episodes/author-kelly-mustian-on-now-appalachia Duration seconds: 2093 ## Resource On the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot interviews author Kelly Mustian about her new novel THE RIVER KNOWS YOUR NAME. Kelly Mustian is the USA Today bestselling author of The Girls in the Stilt House and The River Knows Your Name. She is the recipient of the Mississippi Library Association's 2023 Author Award for Fiction, and The Girls in the Stilt House was shortlisted for the 2022 Crook's Corner Book Prize for best debut novel set in the American South. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and commercial magazines. Originally from Mississippi, she currently lives in North Carolina. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/now-appalachia-17360/episodes/author-kelly-mustian-on-now-appalachia/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/now-appalachia-17360/author-kelly-mustian-on-now-appalachia.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.