I am a Kentucky native who has lived in Ohio for 42 years.
My writing is southern because Faulkner and Styron and Eudora Welty are my chief influences. I was raised by parents with only eighth grade educations in the flat alluvial plain between the Green River and the Ohio River in Kentucky.
It of Kentucky and its fabulous citizens that I write most.
I have been publishing stories since the age of thirteen when my story "I Am a Cornflake" was published in the local paper.
My satirical short story "The Man in the Barn" is to be published soon in Alligator Juniper. My daughters are both college professors, the oldest graduated from Harvard and the youngest (appropriately enough) from the University of Kentucky. I have published southern literary stories, stories of southern satire, horror and even a confession magazine story when I was in law school. The two hundred and fifty bucks was a boon to our spartan budget.
I love writing and reading and books.