Fennelly is a contributor to '' The Oxford American '' , where her essays frequently feature the topics of Southern food , music , and books . Her essays have appeared in '' Ploughshares '' , '' Poets & Writers '' , '' Ecotone '' , and '' The Virginia Quarterly Review '' . The Society of American Travel Writers awarded her the Lowell Prize for her work in '' Southern Living '' . She published a book of essays , '' Great With Child : Letters to a Young Mother '' , in 2006 . Fennelly and her husband , Tom Franklin , co-authored a novel , '' The Tilted World '' , set during the 1927 flood of the Mississippi River . Published in 2013 by HarperCollins , it was named an IndieNext Great Read and a finalist for the 2014 SIBA Book Award and published in six foreign editions
1927 flood of the Mississippi River
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
Beth Ann Fennelly