Her literary influences include Southern authors Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, and Harry Crews.
[3] Pittard's first novel, The Fates Will Find Their Way, follows a group of boys from adolescence through middle age as they react to and speculate about a peer's mysterious disappearance.
[2] Her second novel, Reunion, an editor's choice by the Chicago Tribune,[6] examines the lives and relationships of adult siblings in the immediate aftermath of their father's unexpected suicide.
[3] Listen to Me looks at personal and marital struggles of a wife and husband as they make a cross-country road trip.
It is the fictionalized aftermath of the 1962 Air France Flight 007 accident, which exploded on the runway, killing 130 of the 132 people on board.