Quincy Carroll, author of “Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside”

Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside tells the story of two Americans living and teaching in rural China who fight to establish primacy in Ningyuan, a remote town in the south of Hunan, with one of their more overzealous students, Bella, caught in the middle. Quincy Carroll’s debut novel examines what people bring from one country to another. Carroll was born and raised in Natick, Massachusetts. After graduating from Yale in 2007, he moved to Hunan, China, to teach English. Upon returning to the states, he enrolled in the MFA Creative Writing program at Emerson College.