Derek Updegraff

Derek Updegraff is the author of the novel Whole (2024), the short story collections Pup! et cetera (2020) and The Butcher's Tale and Other Stories (2016), and the poetry collections Paintings That Look Like Things (2018), Between Pit Stops at Late-night Diners (2008), and The Edge Where Atlas Stands (2008). His short stories, poems, translations, and essays have appeared in dozens of literary and scholarly journals, including The Saturday Evening Post, Notre Dame Review, The Carolina Quarterly, CutBank, the minnesota review, North Dakota Quarterly, The Greensboro Review, Bayou Magazine, Raleigh Review, The Classical Outlook, The Southampton Review, Oral Tradition, Pacific Coast Philology, and Texas Studies in Literature and Language. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times and is a contributing writer for the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain (2017). He earned PhD and MA degrees from the University of Missouri at Columbia and MFA and BA degrees from the California State University at Long Beach. He is an Associate Professor of English at Anderson University in South Carolina.