J. S. Absher

J. S. Absher is a poet and independent scholar. His first full-length book of poetry, “Mouth Work” (St. Andrews University Press) won the 2015 Lena Shull Competition of the North Carolina Poetry Society and has been used as a reading text in a university classroom.

Chapbooks are “Night Weather” (Cynosura, 2010) and “The Burial of Anyce Shepherd" (Main Street Rag Publications, 2006). His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including “Third Wednesday,” “North Carolina Literary Review,” “San Pedro River Review,” and “Tar River Poetry.” In 2018 he won the Larson Poetry Prize from “BYU Studies Quarterly.”

He is preparing three books focusing on North Carolina history, the first of which (“Love Letters of a Mississippi Lawyer”) was published this year.

He lives in Raleigh, NC, with his wife, Patti.