Fred McGavran

FRED McGAVRAN is a graduate of Kenyon College and Harvard Law School, and served as an officer in the US Navy in Vietnam. He practiced law as a litigation partner with Frost Brown Todd LLC in Cincinnati, Ohio, defending psychiatric malpractice cases and litigating business cases. In 2010 he was ordained a deacon in the Diocese of Southern Ohio, where he serves as Assistant Chaplain at Episcopal Retirement Services. The Ohio Arts Council awarded him an Individual Achievement Award for "The Reincarnation of Horlach Spenser," a story that appeared in the Harvard Review. Black Lawrence Press published The Butterfly Collector, his award winning collection of short stories. Glass Lyre Press published Recycled Glass and Other Stories, his second collection, in April 2017.

McGavran won the Writers Digest Popular Fiction Award in the horror category, the John Reid/Tom Howard Contest, the Raymond Carver Award from Humboldt State University, and has placed in many other literary and screenwriting contests. His stories have appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Harvard Review, Rosebud, Gray's Sporting Journal, Fiction on the Web, The London Journal of Fiction, SpanktheCarp.com, Storgy Magazine, and other literary magazines and e-zines. His wife Liz is a decorator. Their older daughter Sarah earned a PhD in art history at Washington University in St. Louis, and their younger daughter Marian and her husband and son live in Arlington, VA.