In 2013, Matt Bell took the literary world by storm with his novel In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods — try saying that three times fast. While the premise of the book is simple — newlyweds leave friends and family behind to forge a life living off the land — the simplicity stops there. Penned with a poet’s hand, the novel the Washington Post describes as one “that stirs the Brothers Grimm and Salvador Dalí with its claws” takes readers on a dark, fantastical journey. Bell brings his gift for the written word to the Vermont Studio Center’s visiting writers program.
