| Appalachia Now: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia Contributor(s): Dodd White, Charles (Editor), Smith, Larry (Editor), Offutt, Chris (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1933964855 ISBN-13: 9781933964850 Publisher: Bottom Dog Press OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Fiction | Alternative History - Fiction | Literary |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 6" W x 9" (0.59 lbs) 178 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Appalachia verite...This fine collection edited and introduces by Charles Dodd White and Larry Smith includes this short fiction: �On the Road with C.T. Savage� by Meredith Sue Willis, �Burning Off into Forever� by David Joy, �The Wife You Wanted� by Marie Manilla, �Wild Kind� by Matt Brock, �The Hanging� by Darnell Arnoult, �Confluence� by Mesha Maren, �Covered Bridge� by Taylor Brown, �Obituary� by Jacinda Townsend, �Cell-Life� by Carrie Mullins, �The Hawkins Boy� by Charles Dodd White, �White Freightliner Blues� by Jon Sealy, �That Familiar Ache� by Savannah Sipple, �Monkey Proof� by Rusty Barnes, �Echolocation� by Mark Powell, �A Story to Tell� by Chris Holbrook, �Back Porch� by Chris Offutt |
Contributor Bio(s): Offutt, Chris: - Chris Offutt grew up in Haldeman, Ky, population 200. He has published five books about Kentuckians, and more than a hundred short stories and essays. A memoir about his father's career in porn is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster, followed by a Luck, a collection of stories, and Hit Monkey, a novel. He's also written screenplays for True Blood, Weeds, Treme, and several pilots. His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. He lives in rural Mississippi and can be reached at offutt.chris1@gmail.com.White, Charles Dodd: - Charles Dodd White is the author of the novel Lambs of Men (Casperian Books, 2010). He lives in North Carolina.Smith, Larry: - Larry Smith grew up in the industrial Ohio River Valley and now lives with his wife Ann in Huron, Ohio. He is professor emeritus from Bowling Green State University�s Firelands College and editor-director of Bottom Dog Press. He is a literary biographer and reviewer for the New York Journal of Books. His most recent books are The Free Farm: A Novel (2011) and Lake Winds: Poems (2014).Willis, Mary Sue: - Meredith Sue Willis was raised in Shinnston, West Virginia, where her father�s family came to work for Consolidation Coal Company. She has roots and relatives in southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee. An Adjunct Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at New York University�s School of Professional Studies, she has published fiction with Scribners, HarperCollins, West Virginia University Press, Mercury House, Ohio University Press.. Her most recent book of literary Appalachian stories is Out of the Mountains. She also writes books about writing, and novels for young people. Her website is found at www.meredithsuewillis.comManilla, Marie: - Marie Manilla is a West Virginia native who delights in exploding Appalachian stereotypes in her fiction. Her books include Still Life with Plums: Short Stories (2010); Shrapnel (2012), winner of the Fred Bonnie Award for Best First Novel and The Patron Saint of Ugly (2014), winner of the Weatherford Award. Marie lives in her hometown of Huntington, and is a visiting faculty member in West Virginia Wesleyan�s Low-Residency MFA Program. Marie�s homepage is found at www.mariemanilla.com.Holbrook, Chris: - Chris Holbrook, a native of Knott County, Kentucky, received the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing for Hell and Ohio: Stories of Southern Appalachia, followed by his best selling Upheavel: Stories (2009). A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Holbrook is associate professor of English at Morehead State University.Powell, Mark: - Mark Powell is author of four novels, most recently The Sheltering. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Breadloaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences, and in 2014 was a Fulbright Fellow to Slovakia. In 2009 he received the Chaffin Award for contributions to Appalachian Literature. He is an Associate Professor of English at Stetson University where he also directs the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing program.Offutt, Chris: - Chris Offutt grew up in Haldeman, Ky, population 200. He has published five books about Kentuckians, and more than a hundred short stories and essays. A memoir about his father's career in porn is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster, followed by a Luck, a collection of stories, and Hit Monkey, a novel. He's also written screenplays for True Blood, Weeds, Treme, and several pilots. His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. He lives in rural Mississippi and can be reached at offutt.chris1@gmail.com.Arnoult, Darnell: - Darnell Arnoult, Writer-in-Residence at Lincoln Memorial University. She is the author of the novel Sufficient Grace and What Travels With Us: Poems, recipient of the 2005 Weatherford Award for Appalachian Literature and named 2006 SIBA Poetry Book of the Year. Galaxie Wagon: Poems is forthcoming in spring 2016. Arnoult received the Mary Frances Hobson Medal for Arts and Letters and was named 2007 Tennessee Writer of the Year. She co-edits drafthorse: a literary journal of work and no work and lives in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee with her husband, metal artist William Brock.Arnoult, Darnell: - Darnell Arnoult, Writer-in-Residence at Lincoln Memorial University. She is the author of the novel Sufficient Grace and What Travels With Us: Poems, recipient of the 2005 Weatherford Award for Appalachian Literature and named 2006 SIBA Poetry Book of the Year. Galaxie Wagon: Poems is forthcoming in spring 2016. Arnoult received the Mary Frances Hobson Medal for Arts and Letters and was named 2007 Tennessee Writer of the Year. She co-edits drafthorse: a literary journal of work and no work and lives in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee with her husband, metal artist William Brock.Dodd White, Charles: - Charles Dodd White was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in both the city and the woods. He is the author of the novels A Shelter of Others (2014) and Lambs of Men (2010), as well as the story collection Sinners of Sanction County (2011). Co-editor of two volumes of contemporary Appalachian fiction, Degrees of Elevation (2010) and Appalachia Now (2015), he is currently at work on a new novel called Hurt River. He is an Assistant Professor at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tennessee. |