Leverett Butts

Leverett Butts teaches composition and literature at the University of North Georgia. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Eclectic and The Georgia State University Review. He is the recipient of several fiction prizes offered by the University of West Georgia and TAG Publishing. His first collection of short fiction, Emily's Stitches: The Confessions of Thomas Calloway and Other Stories, was nominated for the 2013 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Short Fiction, the collection of the first two volumes of his Guns of the Waste Land was nominated in 2016, and the third volume of the series won honorable mention in the 2018 Georgia Independent Author of the Year Award in historical fiction. He lives in Carrollton, Georgia, with his wife, son, their confused dog, and an antisocial cat.