Washington and Lee University
Mattingly HouseM.A. in English, Appalachian State University, 1976
B.A. in Philosophy, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, 1970
Shenandoah Internship
Seminars
Poe
Frost
Flannery O'Connor
The Civil War in American Literature
Literature of Virginia
Appalachian Literature
Fiction Writing
The Calaboose Epistles: Stories. Iris Press, 2009
Outlaw Style: Poems. University of Arkansas Press, 2008
Uke Rivers Delivers: Stories. LSU Press, 2006
Ensemble. Talking River Press, 2006
Brightwood: Poems. LSU Press, 2003
Common Wealth: Contemporary Virginia Poets. UVA Press, 2003 (edited with Sarah Kennedy)
The Hollow Log Lounge: Poems. U of Illinois Press, 2003
Messenger: Poems. LSU Press, 2001
Split the Lark: Selected Poems. Salmon Press of Ireland, 1999
Trespasser: Poems. LSU Press, 1996
Hunter-Gatherer: Poems. Livingston U Press, 1996
Faith: Stories. Black Belt Press, 1995
2008 Library of Virginia Book of the Year; 2007 Cohen Prize from Ploughshares; 2007 Guy Owen Prize from Southern Poetry Review; 2003 Virginia Commission for the Arts Fiction Fellowship; 2003 Pushcart Prize; 2002 Library of Virginia Poetry Book of the Year; 2001 Theodore Hoepffner Award from Southern Humanities Review; 2000 Richard Hugo Award from Poetry Northwest; 1999 Virginia Commission for the Arts Poetry Fellowship; 1999 Internation Poetry Award from Salmon Publishing in Ireland
Outsider art, bluegrass music, Appalachian culture, Southern literature, Irish literature and traditional music, the Civil War
The Red Wolf: Poems of Flannery O'Connor
Sherburne: Stories
