Fiction Southeast

Claudia Smith

Claudia Smith’s short-shorts have appeared in several literary journals and anthologies, including Norton’s n Norton’s New Sudden...

Donald Ray Pollock’s first book, Knockemstiff, won the 2009 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New York Times,...

Josh Russell’s novels are Yellow Jack (W.W. Norton), My Bright Midnight (LSU Press), and the forthcoming A True History of the Captivation,...

Michael Chitwood was born in the foothills of the Virginia Blue Ridge in a small town named Rocky Mount. He grew up there, attending the county’s...

Michael Martone is currently a Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Alabama where he has been...

Bender received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at San Diego, and a Master of Fine Arts from the distinguished creative...

Ron Carlson’s short stories originally appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Esquire, and GQ. In addition to his fiction,...

Joyce Carol Oates is a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction who is known best for her novels Them (1969) and We Were the Mulvaneys (1996)....

Jeannine Hall Gailey’s first book of poetry, Becoming the Villainess (2006), was published by Steel Toe Books. Poems from the book were...

Robert Olen Butler has published twelve novels—The Alleys of Eden, Sun Dogs, Countrymen of Bones, On Distant Ground, Wabash, The Deuce, They...

Paul Griner was born in Boston. He is the author of two novels,The German Woman and Collectors, as well as the story collection Follow Me. A...

John Biguenet has published seven books, including Oyster, a novel, and The Torturer’s Apprentice: Stories, released in the U.S. by...