Featured Writers
Tom Franklin
Tom Franklin, born in the hamlet of Dickinson, Alabama, is the author of
Poachers: Stories, and the novels Hell at the Breech and
Smonk, all published by William Morrow. Recipient of a 2001 Guggenheim
Fellowship, Franklin has published work in The Oxford American,
The Southern Review, Black Warrior Review and elsewhere.
His stories have been anthologized in New Stories from the South,
Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, The Granta Book
of the American Short Story (edited by Richard Ford) and elsewhere.
His novella Poachers won the 1999 Edgar Allan Poe Award and Hell
at the Breech won the Mississippi Institute for the Arts and Letters
Fiction Prize and the Alabama Library Association Award.
Franklin has been the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University, the Tennessee Williams Fellow at Sewanee, and the John and Renee Writer-in-Residence at Ole Miss. Currently he lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, poet Beth Ann Fennelly, and their two children.
Linda Aschbrenner
Linda
Aschbrenner is founder, editor, and publisher of Free Verse, ninety-seven
issues of which have appeared in ten years. She is also the founder of Marsh
River Editions, publisher of 16 chapbooks. For four years she conducted
a monthly reading series.
Her own poetry, essays, and short stories have appeared in numerous venues. She is the recipient of the 2008 Christopher Latham Sholes Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers.