Appalachia Now: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia

Appalachia verite...This fine collection edited and introduced 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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.