I am a professor in the Department of English at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and in the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Queens Univelrsity in Charlotte, North Carolina. I have published three collections of short stories and a novel. My new collection, MIRACLE BOY AND OTHER STORIES, has just been published in the US by Press 53, and will be published in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand by Salt Publishing. It is also available in a Kindle edition.
I write principally out of a kind of twisted nostalgia for the landscape in which I was raised. I grew up on my family's dairy farm in southern West Virginia, and almost all of my fiction is set in that place. The farm is still there, my family is still there, but my boyhood is gone forever: and I yearn for it, even though I was constantly afraid.
Too many to list, I'm afraid, and my favorites are always changing.
Hey, Pinckney.
Welcome to Fictionaut, Pinckney! Have a great time on board.
Hello! So great to see you here, Pinckney! Welcome!!
Thanks, Darryl and Meg! Glad to find myself a Fictionaut.
Hi Pinckney! Welcome!
Cool! It's a great honor to have you with us. Hope you enjoy the show.
Hey, Pinckney.
Welcome to Fictionaut, Pinckney! Have a great time on board.
Hello! So great to see you here, Pinckney! Welcome!!
Thanks, Darryl and Meg! Glad to find myself a Fictionaut.
Hi Pinckney! Welcome!
Cool! It's a great honor to have you with us. Hope you enjoy the show.