Gigi Amateau

A Certain Strain of Peculiar

Gigi Amateau lives in Richmond , Virginia .  Her first young adult novel, Claiming Georgia Tate (Candlewick Press, 2005) was selected as a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age and nominated to the American Library Association ( ALA ) Best Books for Young Adults (BBYA) list. Her second book, Chancey of the Maury River (Candlewick Press, May 2008) was recently nominated to the William Allen White Award Masters List for grades 3-5.  In 2009, Candlewick released her novel, A Certain Strain of Peculiar,  which was nominated to the BBYA and Amelia Bloomer Project lists.

Frank W. Baker

Political Campaigns and Political Advertising: A Media Literacy Guide

William Baldwin- CANCELLED

Gullah Cuisine

A lifelong resident of the Carolina Low Country, William P. Baldwin is an award-winning novelist, biographer and historian.   He graduated from Clemson in with a BA in History and an MA in English.   He ran a shrimp boat for 9 years and built houses off and on for another twenty.   He has been writing fairly steadily for thirty years.

His works include Plantations of the Low Country, Low Country Plantations Today, and the oral histories Mrs. Whaley and her Charleston Garden, Heaven is a Beautiful Place and Journey of a Hope Merchant.    He is married with two grown sons, two wonderful daughters-in-law, three near perfect grandchildren, and a kayak.   

Libby Bernardin

The Book of Myth

Libby Bernardin’s chapbook, The Book of Myth (Stepping Stones Press), is a 2008 winner of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Chapbook contest.   Her work has been published in numerous journals, most recently in Southern Poetry Review.   Poems have also appeared in several anthologies.   She is the author of the novel, The Stealing, (McGraw-Hill, 1993).   She is a South Carolina Arts Commission Literary Fellow, and serves on the Board of Governors of the South Carolina Academy of Authors.  

James O. Born

Burn Zone

Rick Bragg- CANCELLED

Sonny Brewer- CANCELLED

Linda Beatrice Brown

Black Angels

Linda Beatrice Brown is Distinguished Professor of Humanities and holds the Willa B. Player Chair in the Humanities at Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, NC. She is the author of Rainbow ‘Roun Mah Shoulder, and the critically acclaimed Crossing Over Jordan. She is a poet and lecturer and has written for The Black Scholar, Religion and Intellectual Life, and Cricket. This is her first book for young readers.

Nina Bruhns

If Looks Could Chill

Nina Bruhns is a world traveler, adventurer, and archaeologist -- all great story fodder, giving her novels broad dimension, vivid settings, and unusual characters. Her bestselling romantic thrillers have earned two RITA nominations and numerous other awards, including three prestigious Daphne du Maurier Awards of Excellence for Overall Best Mystery/Suspense Novel of the Year, five Dorothy Parker Awards, and a National Readers Choice Award.

Charlie Burnette

Manipulation By Degree

Charlie Burnette, attorney, actor, dancer, tri-athlete, and father of four lives in Rock Hill , SC , with Marcia, his wife of thirty years.   Decades of practicing law have triggered fiction exploding with anger, fear, redemption, and justice.

Jim Casada

A Southern Sportsman: The Hunting Memoirs of Henry Edwards Davis

A self-described “recovering” university professor, Jim Casada took early retirement to write full time on the outdoors, food traditions, nature, and southern Appalachian history and folkways.   A full-time freelance writer who has won numerous awards for his work, he has written or edited more than 40 books and contributes regularly to regional and national magazines.

Jackie Cooper

The Sunrise Remembers

Jackie K. Cooper is the author of five books, the latest being THE SUNRISE REMEMBERS which is a memoir of his life in the South. He also teaches a course on writing “Memoirs” at various schools and book festivals. Cooper is also a respected film critic. He and his wife Terry live in Perry , Georgia

Tom Moore Craig

Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War: The Letters of the Anderson, Moore, and Brockman Families, 1853-1865

Mike Creel

The Boykin Spaniel: South Carolina's Dog, Revised Edition

South Carolina native Mike Creel is a retired public affairs specialist for the state’s Department of Natural Resources and a longtime writer and photographer for South Carolina Wildlife magazine. Creel is a graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Journalism and recipient of the 1997 Harry R. E. Hampton “Woods and Waters” Conservation Memorial Award for journalism given by the South Carolina Wildlife Federation. He is a self-taught authority on native plant propagation and discovered a new native azalea species in 1999. Creel is coauthor (with Lynn Kelley) of The Boykin Spaniel: South Carolina’s Dog, Revised Edition.

DeLana R.A. Dameron

How God Ends Us

DéLana R.A. Dameron is the author of How God Ends Us (University of South Carolina Press 2009), a debut collection of poetry chosen by Elizabeth Alexander for the 2008 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. Dameron currently resides in New York City .

Kwame Dawes

Back of Mount Peace

Gerald Duff

Fire Ants

Gerald Duff has published six novels, two poetry collections, and most recently a collection of short stories, Fire Ants. The title story won the Cohen Award from Ploughshares for the best short fiction of the year, and Fire Ants and Other Stories was named a finalist by the Texas Institute of Letters for the best book of fiction of 2008. His work has appeared in Kenyon Review, Sewanee Review, Southwest Review, Georgia Review, and Missouri Review.

Brian Dukes

The Blue Marlin Cookbook

Heidi Durrow

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

Heidi W. Durrow is a graduate of Stanford, Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and Yale Law School. She is the co-founder and co-producer of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival, and co-host of the award-winning podcast Mixed Chicks Chat.  Heidi is the Her debut novel, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (Algonquin Books), about a young biracial girl’s coming-of-age, was chosen by Barbara Kingsolver for the Bellwether Prize for Fiction.

Walter Edgar

Adam Edwards

Faster Pastor

Author and race car driver Adam Edwards has driven in the ARCA/REMAX national racing series, managed and spotted for a NASCAR Nationwide Series race team, and worked as a race car driving instructor at the Fast Track School of Racing. Adam has appeared in national television commercials with NASCAR Cup drivers, such as Tony Stewart, and Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

Linda Annas Ferguson

Dirt Sandwich

Linda Annas Ferguson is the author of five collections of poetry. Her newest book is Dirt Sandwich, published by Press 53 (Sept, 2009). She was a featured poet for the Library of Congress Poetry at Noon Series. Her work is archived by Furman University Special Collections in the James B. Duke Library. A recipient of the Poetry Fellowship of the South Carolina Academy of Authors, she is a member of the Academy’s Board of Governors.  

William Ferris

Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues

William Ferris is Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History and senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . A former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ferris coedited the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and is the author of Blues from the Delta. Rolling Stone magazine has named him among the top ten professors in the United States .

Dorothea Benton Frank

Return to Sullivan's Island

Dorothea Benton Frank is the New York Times best selling author of Bulls Island (William Morrow 2008), The Land of Mango Sunsets (William Morrow 2007), The Christmas Pearl (William Morrow 2007), Full of Grace (William Morrow 2006), Pawleys Island (Berkley 2005), Shem Creek (Berkley 2004), Isle of Palms (Berkley 2003), Plantation (Jove 2001) and Sullivan's Island (Jove 2000).

Mindy Friddle

Secret Keepers

Mindy Friddle was awarded a 2008-2009 Individual Artist Fellowship in Prose from the South Carolina Arts Commission. Her second novel, Secret Keepers, was published by St. Martin 's Press in May. Her debut novel, The Garden Angel ( St. Martin ’s Press/Picador) was a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection and an NPR Summer Reading Pick. She has twice won the South Carolina Fiction Prize.   She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson.

Virginia Friedman

In Search of Ambrosio Gonzales: Soldier Under Two Flags

Virginia Tormey Friedman, vice president of academic media programming at the College of Charleston , founded and directs the Center for the Documentary. In addition to having responsibility for radio, television, film, and new media production, she teaches documentary studies and is a frequent juror for film awards and festivals. Virginia is recipient of the Governors Award in the humanities and has received various film and writing awards, including two EMMY awards. Her productions have been viewed on public television, including her most recent doc, In Search of Ambrosio Gonzales: Soldier Under Two Flags. She is working on a documentary on water.

Harriett Green

South Carolina Arts Commission State Art Collection 1987-2006

Amy Greene

Bloodroot

Susan Gregg Gilmore

Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen

Susan Gregg Gilmore was born in Nashville , Tennessee , in 1961. Although her artist mother bought her daughter her first easel and box of paints when she was five, it was her father’s love of family storytelling that captured their young daughter’s attention. Her first novel, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen , is rooted in summer vacations spent with her paternal grandmother and grandfather, a revival-bred preacher, who after church on Sundays, always took his granddaughters to the Dairy Queen.

Janice Hardy

The Shifter

A long-time fantasy reader, Janice Hardy always wondered about the darker side of healing. For her debut fantasy novel, The Shifter: Book One of The Healing Wars, she tapped into her own dark side to create a world where healing was dangerous, and those with the best intentions often made the worst choices. She lives in Georgia with her husband, three cats and one very nervous freshwater eel.

Linda Lee Harper

Small Waves

John Hart

The Last Child

Fran Hawk

Count Down to Fall

As soon Fran Hawk learned to read and write, reading and writing were her favorite things to do. They still are! After majoring in English as an undergraduate, Fran earned a Master's Degree in Library Science.   In addition to writing children's books and a book about children's books, Fran also write a weekly column for the Charleston , SC Post and Courier . Her column is based on her experiences as a school librarian, mother of 4 children and grandmother of (almost) six.

Patti Callahan Henry

Driftwood Summer

Patti Callahan Henry is a New York Times Bestselling novelist. She has six novels with Penguin/NAL (Losing the Moon, Where the River Runs, When Light Breaks, Betweeen the Tides, The Art of Keeping Secrets, and Driftwood Summer).

Patti has been hailed as a fresh new voice in southern fiction. She has been short-listed for the Townsend Prize for Fiction and has been nominated for the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Fiction Novel of the Year. She is a frequent speaker at luncheons, book clubs and women’s groups where she discusses the importance of storytelling and anything else they want to talk about.

Todd Herman

Dr. Todd Herman, Chief Curator at the Columbia Museum of Art, is an Italian Renaissance and Baroque scholar with a Ph.D. in art history from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland , Ohio . His doctoral work centers around painting, sculpture, architecture, and graphic work in 15^th through 17^th century Italy culminating in his dissertation, Out of the Shadow of Titian: Bonifacio de’Pitati and 16^th Century Venetian Painting. Dr. Herman earned the M.A. from the University of South Carolina , also in art history, and earned both the B.A. in art and the B.S. in science from James Madison University in Harrisonburg , Virginia .

Robert Hicks

A Separate Country

Stephen Hoffius

Northern Money, Southern Land: The Lowcountry Plantation Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin

Stephen G. Hoffius is a freelance writer and editor in Charleston and the former director of publications for the South Carolina Historical Society. He is coeditor with Angela D. Mack of Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art. His new book is Northern Money, Southern Land: The Lowcountry Plantation Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin, which he coedited with Robert B. Cuthbert.

Batt Humphreys

Dead Weight

Batt Humphreys, a Georgia native, began a career in television news in Charleston in the early 80s.  His career took him to CBS News in New York where he spent 15 years, most as a senior producer, before leaving to return to his beloved South.  He managed the coverage of many of the events that have shaped our lives over the past quarter century, including the first hours of the morning of September 11, 2001, several wars, elections and as a reporter covering hurricanes, executions and more murders than he cares to remember. Humphreys currently lives on a farm outside Charleston , along with horses, dogs and cats of varying populations. Dead Weight, his first novel, is based on a true story.

Wilmot Irvin

Merriman's Second Chance

Charlotte Jenkins

Gullah Cuisine: By Land and By Sea

Chef Charlotte Jenkins , owner of Gullah Cuisine in Mount Pleasant , S.C. , is recognized as a premier Gullah chef. She is the featured chef in a new book called Gullah Cuisine: By Land and By Sea, (March 2010, Evening Post Publishing Company with Joggling Board Press), featuring a narrative by critically acclaimed author William P. Baldwin, photographs by Pulitzer Prize-nominee Mic Smith and art by beloved Gullah painter Jonathan Green. Pat Conroy describes the Gullah people depicted in Jonathan Green's world as looking like “they got dressed while staring at rainbows.”

Wanda Jewell

Wanda is a bionic marketer for indie bookstore entrepreneurs & their intelligent, devoted readers and writers. 

Dinah Johnson

Some know Dinah Johnson as Dr. Dianne Johnson, literary historian and professor of English at the University of South Carolina where she teaches a range of courses including children’s and young adult literature and African American film. As “Dinah”—her parents’ nickname for her—she is the author of several books published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers including Hair Dance! She loves South Carolina and, most importantly, she loves being Niani Feelings’ mother.

Kristina Dunn Johnson

No Holier Spot of Ground: Confederate Monuments and Cemeteries of South Carolina

Kristina Dunn Johnson was a contributing writer for Forward Together: South Carolinians in the Great War from The History Press (2007). She serves as Curator of History at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum and has also worked as Education Coordinator for the Historic Columbia Foundation. During the summers of 2002 through 2004, she worked as a Historical Interpretation Park Ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park. She has a B.A. in History from Emory University and a M.A. in Public History from the University of South Carolina.

M. Mikell Johnson

The African American Woman Golfer: Her Legacy

Charles Joyner

Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community, 25th Anniversary Edition

Charles Joyner is best known for his study of the rice plantations in South Carolina ,   Down by the Riverside .   It won the National University Press Book Award and was cited as “the finest work ever written on American slavery .”   A fellow of the Society of American Historians, he also wrote Shared Traditions and other books.   He holds two earned doctorates and taught at Berkeley , Old Miss, and Australia ’s University of Sydney .

Lynn Kelley

The Boykin Spaniel: South Carolina's Dog, Revised Edition

Chris Saxon Koelker

Edgewood: Stage of Southern History

Chris Saxon Koelker is a documentary writer/director with more than two decades of media production experience. Her personal intention is to focus on the visual documentation of individual, cultural stories and their importance within the broader context of history. Edgewood : Stage of Southern History is a docudrama about the Pickens-Salley house, directed and written by Chris, that premiers in March of 2010.   She is currently in preproduction for two new documentaries about the South.

Lillian Lincoln Lambert

The Road to Someplace Better

Lillian Lincoln Lambert, who grew up in rural Virginia , started breaking barriers as the first black female Harvard MBA in 1969. She went on to found a $20 million company that employed 1,200 people. In 2003, she received Harvard Business School 's Alumni Achievement Award, its highest award. Today Lillian is a successful speaker and author. She and her husband John Lambert divide their time between their homes in Richmond , Virginia and Sarasota , Florida .

Stanley Lanzano

True Places: A Lowcountry Preacher, His Church, and His People

Stanley F. Lanzano is a self-taught photographer and storyteller. A native New Yorker, Lanzano is a graduate of Mount Saint Mary’s University and Yale University . He moved with his family from New York to Boulder , Colorado , in 1974 and developed his photographic interests after a successful real estate career. Lanzano’s work has been featured at the McKissick Museum in Columbia , South Carolina , the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta , Georgia , the Denver Art Museum , and numerous other galleries in Colorado . He is the author and photographer of True Places: A Lowcountry Preacher, His Church, and His People, a photographic documentary of the daily and spiritual lives of African American congregations in Georgetown and Williamsburg Counties .

Matt and Ted Lee

The Lee Brothers: Simple Fresh Southern

Valinda W. Littlefield

South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times - Volume 2

Valinda W. Littlefield is an assistant professor of history at the University of South Carolina. She is the subject editor for education in the African American National Biography (Oxford), edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham . Her book A Quiet Force:  African American Women Schoolteachers and Black Freedom in the South, 1884-1954 is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press.

Alexander Macaulay

Marching In Step: Masculinity, Citizenship and the Citadel in Post-World War II America

Charles Mack

European Art in the Columbia Museum of Art, Including the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Volume 1

The author of European Art in the Columbia Museum of Art, Including the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Volume 1, Charles R. Mack taught art history for thirty-five years at the University of South Carolina, where he was a Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts and the William Joseph Todd Professor of the Italian Renaissance. Mack is the author of Looking at the Renaissance: Essays toward a Contextual Appreciation, Pienza: The Creation of a Renaissance City , Talking with the Turners: Conversations with Southern Folk Potters, and Paper Pleasures: Five Centuries of Drawings and Watercolors. He is also coauthor of The Roman Remains: John Izard Middleton’s Visual Souvenirs of 1820–1823 and coeditor of Like a Sponge Thrown into Water: Francis Lieber’s European Travel Journal of 1844–1845 and Francis Lieber and the Culture of the Mind. Since his retirement from teaching in 2005, Mack has continued to maintain his close working relationship with the Columbia Museum of Art.

Tom Mack

Circling the Savannah: Cultural Landmarks of the Central Savannah River Area

T om Mack has been a member of the faculty of the University of South Carolina–Aiken since 1976. During that time, he has established an enviable “record of teaching excellence as well as outstanding performance in research and public service.” He currently holds the G.L. Toole Chair in English. Since 1990, he has contributed a weekly column to the Aiken Standard on a wide range of topics in the humanities.

Charles McCain

An Honorable German

Tia McCollors

The Last Woman Standing

Tia McCollors weaves stories of faith and fiction . Since the release of her first novel in 2005, she has emerged as a steadfast author of faith-based books, including The Last Woman Standing.   As a founding author with the Anointed Authors On Tour , Tia has committed to write and publish integrity-based literature.   She’s also an inspirational speaker and writing workshop instructor. Tia resides in the Atlanta , GA area with her husband and children. Contact her at www.TiaWrites.com or www.facebook.com/TiaMcCollors.

Jill McCorkle

Going Away Shoes

Sharyn McCrumb

Faster Pastor

Janna McMahan

The Ocean Inside

Ray McManus

Driving through the Country before You Are Born

Ray McManus is the author of Left Behind, Stepping Stones Press 2008 and Driving through the country before you are born, USC Press 2007. His poetry has appeared in many journals throughout the United Sates and Canada . He is an Assistant Professor of English in the Division of Arts and Letters at USC Sumter where he teaches composition, literature, Irish literature and creative writing.

Susan Meyers

Keep and Give Away

Susan Meyers, of Givhans, SC, is the author of Keep and Give Away (University of South Carolina Press, 2006), which won the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Book Award for Poetry, and the Brockman-Campbell Book Award. Her poems have also appeared in The Southern Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. She is a past president of the poetry societies of both North and South Carolina .

Ben McC. Moise

A Southern Sportsman: The Hunting Memoirs of Henry Edwards Davis; Ramblings of a Lowcountry Game Warden: A Memoir

Ben McC. Moïse was a conservation officer with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources from 1978 to 2002. In recognition of his achievements in law enforcement, he was presented the Guy Bradley Award by the North American Fish and Wildlife Foundation in 1990 and the Order of the Palmetto by South Carolina governor Carroll Campbell in 1994. A contributor to the Charleston Post and Courier, Charleston Mercury, and other regional publications, Moïse is the author of Ramblings of a Lowcountry Game Warden : A Memoir, recently honored with an Excellence in Craft Award by the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association. He is also the editor of A Southern Sportsman: The Hunting Memoirs of Henry Edwards Davis.

Maggi Morehouse

Edgewood: Stage of Southern History

Bob Morris

Baja Florida

Bob Morris’s work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler , Caribbean Travel & Life , and Bon Appetit . His other books in the Zack Chasteen series include A Deadly Silver Sea, Bahamarama , Jamaica Me Dead , and Bermuda Schwartz. Bob lives in Winter Park , Florida

Sheila Morris

Not Quite the Same

Carl Naylor

The Day the Johnboat Went Up the Mountain: Stories from My Twenty Years in South Carolina Maritime Archaeology

After spending four years in the U.S. Navy, Carl Naylor worked as a South Carolina newspaper journalist before turning to his third career as a scuba-diving instructor in 1985. Two years later he joined the staff of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, where he is diving supervisor and archaeologist assistant for its Maritime Research Division. He is an instructor for the institute’s underwater archaeology field-training course and acts as captain for its research vessels. Naylor lives on James Island near Charleston . Tales from his adventures are newly published as The Day the Johnboat Went Up the Mountain: Stories from My Twenty Years in South Carolina Maritime Archaeology.

Dale Neal

Cow Across America

Dale Neal is the author of the novel, Cow Across America, winner of the 2009 Novello Literary Prize. His short fiction and essays have appeared in Arts & Letters, Carolina Quarterly, Marlboro Review, Crescent Review and many other literary journals. He works as a journalist for the Asheville Citizen-Times and lives in Asheville with his wife and dog.

Clarence Nero

Temptations of Desire

Clarence Nero, author, screenwriter, educator, grew up in New Orleans ’ Ninth Ward and graduated from Howard University with a B.S. in Chemistry. He has received favorable praise from Dr. Maya Angelou, and his screenplay “Temptations of Desire” was recommended to Sundance Lab by Jonathan Demme, Academy Award Winning Director of “Silence of the Lambs” and “Beloved.” Nero’s second novel, “Three Sides To Every Story” was endorsed by the late E. Lynn Harris, who the author credits for jump starting his career in mainstream publishing.

Nero, the self-proclaimed “King of Drama,” has an MFA in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University . He teaches at the Baton Rouge Community College .

Betsy Newman

Roots in the River: The Story of Congaree National Park

Betsy Newman is a documentary producer for the South Carolina ETV series “Carolina Stories.”   Her documentaries for ETV include: Rebel Hearts: The Grimke Sisters of South Carolina; Grand Strand: A Myrtle Beach Story; The Last Auction; Saving Sandy Island; This is Brookgreen Gardens; G-Man: The Rise and Fall of Melvin Purvis; and Roots in the River: The Story of Congaree National Park.

Lucy Nolan

Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys and Gulls

James O'Neal

The Human Disguise

James O’Neal is an award winning author and career law enforcement officer.  He has written extensively about Florida history.  Using his experience and research he has constructed a future scenario that features social rather than technological changes.  The first in the series, The Human Disguise won critical praise.  The next in the series, The Double Human is due for release in the summer of 2010.  James O’Neal is a pseudonym for crime novelist James O. Born.

Ted Ashton Phillips, Jr. presented by Thomas Brown

City of Silent: The Charlestonians of Magnolia Cemetery

Ted Ashton Phillips, Jr. (1959-2005), was a resident and historian of Charleston . A graduate of Harvard University, where he wrote for the Harvard Lampoon, Phillips was a trustee of Magnolia Cemetery, a member of the Brown Fellowship Cemetery Committee, and an officer of the Preservation Society of Charleston. He is interred in Magnolia Cemetery with the subjects of his book, City of the Silent: The Charlestonians of Magnolia Cemetery.  The book will be represented by Thomas Brown, Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, who was Phillips' college roommate.  Brown fact checked and copyedited the manuscript that Phillips left at his death and worked with USC Press in preparing the book for its publication this month.

Nancy Tringali Piho

My Two Year Old Eats Octopus: Raising Children Who Love to Eat Everything

Craig Popelars

A graduate of Appalachian State University, Craig Popelars serves as the Director of Marketing for Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, and Algonquin's parent company, Workman Publishing, in New York City . Craig has worked with such celebrated authors as Lee Smith, Jill McCorkle, Clyde Edgerton, Robert Morgan, and Julia Alvarez, and was instrumental in successfully launching the runaway New York Times bestseller, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.  

Joseph M. Quattro

Freshwater Fishes of South Carolina

Joseph M. Quattro is an associate professor of biological and marine sciences at the University of South Carolina . He has studied the evolutionary history of Carolina fishes and taught ichthyology since 1995 and is a coauthor of Freshwater Fishes of South Carolina .

Ron Rash

Burning Bright

Ron Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Finalist and New York Times bestselling novel, Serena, in addition to three other prizewinning novels, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; three collections of poems; and three collections of stories, among them Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. A recipient of the O.Henry Prize, he teaches at Western Carolina University .

Brian Ray

Through the Pale Door

Booklist has dubbed Brian Ray "a talent to watch." His short fiction has been nominated for inclusion in the Pushcart Prize anthology and Best New American Voices. Ray is a winner of the 2007 SC Fiction Project and a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award as well as the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize. His work has appeared in Green Mountains Review, Louisiana Review, and New South. Before moving to NC, he also wrote for the Free Times and the Columbia City Paper.

Francis Ray

One Night With You

Andrew Rice

The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget

Andrew Rice is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, and his reporting from Africa has appeared in that and numerous other publications, including The Economist, The New Republic and The Paris Review. His award-winning journalistic work has covered a wide variety of subjects, at home and abroad, including real estate, cattle breeding, witchcraft, fashion, born-again Christians, dictatorship, democracy, urban planning, politics, soccer, and war. Rice, 33, is a native of Columbia , South Carolina , and a graduate of Georgetown University . He worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Observer before moving to Uganda in 2002 as a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs , an American nonprofit foundation. The Teeth May Smile But The Heart Does Not Forget, his first book, was published by Metropolitan Books in 2009. The New York Times called it a “vivid prism for examining some of the largest themes in Africa ’s history,” while Kirkus Reviews named it one of its Best Books of 2009. In January, Rice’s book was named as a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize, which is awarded each year to the best work written in English about international affairs.

Atsuro Riley

Romey's Order

Celia Rivenbark

You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning

Celia Rivenbark is an award-winning newspaper columnist and freelance journalist whose work has been compared to a cross between Erma Bombeck and Hunter S. Thompson. Celia has won national and state press awards and is the author of four previous humor collections: Belle Weather , Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like A Skank, We're Just Like You, Only Prettier and Bless Your Heart, Tramp. She lives in Wilmington , North Carolina .

Lisa Rogak- CANCELLED

Fred Rohde

Freshwater Fishes of South Carolina

Coauthor and photographer of Freshwater Fishes of South Carolina, Fred C. Rohde was a senior biologist with the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries for twenty-five years before joining the National Marine Fisheries Service in Beaufort, North Carolina. Rohde has been studying fishes in South Carolina since 1977 and is coauthor of an earlier volume, Freshwater Fishes of the Carolinas , Virginia , Maryland , and Delaware .

Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

Uptown/Downtown in Old Charleston: Sketches and Stories

Often credited as the person most responsible for the emergence of Southern literature as a field of scholarly study, Charleston native Louis D. Rubin, Jr., has been an author, an editor, a publisher, an artist, a newspaperman and a university professor during his distinguished career. Rubin has served as chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, president of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, and chairman of the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association.

Abby Sallenger

Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth Century Disaster the Warns of a Warmer World

Abby (Asbury) Sallenger is an oceanographer who received his B.A. in Geology and Ph.D. in Marine Science from the University of Virginia . He is the former Chief Scientist of the U.S. Geological Survey ’s Center for Coastal Geology and presently leads the USGS storm impact research group, investigating how the coast changes during extreme storms. Abby and his new book Island in a Storm have been featured in the New York Times and NPR’s Morning Edition.

James Scott

The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship

James Scott is an award-winning writer and former journalist with the Charleston , S.C. , Post and Courier. Scott is a recipient of the McClatchy Company President’s Award and was named the 2003 Journalist of the Year by the South Carolina Press Association. Wofford College honored Scott as its 2005 Young Alumnus of the Year. From 2006-2007 he was a Nieman Fellow for Journalism at Harvard University .  Scott lives with his wife and two children in Charleston .

Nicole Seitz

Saving Cicadas

Nicole is the author and cover illustrator of four books. The Spirit of Sweetgrass , Nicole's debut novel, was selected as the March 2007 FaithPoint Book-of-the-Month for Books-a-Million. Her second novel, Trouble the Water, was chosen as one of the Best Books of 2008 by Library Journal and was an editor's pick in Charleston Magazine . Her third novel, A Hundred Years of Happiness, was nominated by independent booksellers for the 2009 SIBA Book Award. Her latest novel, Saving Cicadas (Dec 2009), is an Indie Next List Notable pick for January 2010, a Pulpwood Queens Bonus selection for February 2010, and was selected as a "favorite pick for readers on your Christmas list" in Southern Living .

Rose Senehi

The Wind in the Woods

Rose Senehi, who has homes in Murrells Inlet, SC, and Chimney Rock, NC, sets her novels around southern families caught in the struggle of holding onto their land against the forces of development. Noted for weaving environmental themes through her character-driven Romantic Thrillers, Senehi’s tales are part mystery, part family saga, and part love story.

David S. Shields

Pioneering American Wine: Writings of Nicholas Herbemont, Master Viticulturist

David S. Shields is McClintock Professor of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina . He edits the journal Early American Literature and also serves as general editor of the Publications of the Southern Texts Society series. Shields's books include Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America and Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics, and Commerce in British America , 1690-1750 .

Jack Shuler

Calling Out Liberty

Drink Small

Anne Soni

The Body That Shadows This Space

Anne Soni was born in Charleston , South Carolina . She received her BA degree in Communications from Northwestern University .   Soni is of Indian descent and has made several extended visits to India .   The intense sensory experiences of the country have shaped her poetry.   In 2004 her poem “Lineage” won the SC Poetry Initiative and the State Newspaper’s   inaugural   Single Poem Contest.     Her poem “Regarding Cows” won first place in Lake Murray Magazine’s 2008 writing competition.   Having lived in Italy , Oregon and Chicago , Soni now lives in Columbia , SC.   The Body That Shadows This Space is her first collection of poems.

Marjorie Julian Spruill

South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times - Volume 2

Susan Finch Stevens

Lettered Bones

Susan Finch Stevens lives on the Isle of Palms near Charleston , SC. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies and her chapbook Lettered Bones, a winner in the 2008 South Carolina Poetry Initiative Chapbook Competition, is available from Stepping Stone Press. She has an abiding interest in the relationship between text and image and often creates one-of-a-kind or limited edition artist’s books incorporating her poetry and visual art.

Dacre Stoker

Dracula The Undead

Dacre Stoker is the great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker. He lives in South Carolina with his family. Dracula The Un-Dead is his first novel.

Patricia Sullivan

Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement

Patricia Sullivan is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and Fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University . She is the author of Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement, Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era and Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years.   She serves as coeditor of the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture, University of North Carolina Press .

Trisha Thomas- CANCELLED

Nappily In Bloom

Jon Tuttle

Two South Carolina Plays

Jon Tuttle is Playwright-in-Residence at Trustus Theatre in Columbia , SC , and Professor of English at Francis Marion University .   He has won national and regional awards and received over 100 productions and staged readings across the country.    His collections include The Trustus Plays (Intellect, 2009) and Two South Carolina Plays ( Hub City , 2009).   

Kathryn R. Wall

Covenant Hall

Kathryn R. Wall wrote her first story at the age of six then took a few decades off. Born in Ohio , she now lives in the South Carolina Lowcountry where her Bay Tanner mystery series is set. She is a founder of the Island Writers’ Network and serves on the boards of SE Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.

Tiffany Warren

In the Midst of It All

Tiffany L. Warren is an author, playwright, songwriter, mother and wife. Her debut novel, What a Sista Should Do, was released in June 2005 and has ministered to over 50,000 readers. Tiffany also hosts the annual Faith and Fiction Retreat, a conference that connects readers with their favorite Faith Fiction Authors.  Tiffany's fourth novel, In the Midst of it All is set to be released in February 2010. Tiffany lives in Dallas with her family.

Marjory Wentworth

Shackles

Marjory Wentworth’s poems have appeared in numerous books and magazines, and she has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize three times.   Her books of poetry include Noticing Eden and Despite Gravity.   She has also published a children’s story called Shackles. Her third collection of poems, The Endless Repetition of an Ordinary Miracle is forthcoming in the spring of 2010.   She is the Poet Laureate of South Carolina.  

Karen White

The Girl on Legare Street

A five-time Georgia Author of the Year nominee as well as a three-time finalist for the prestigious RITA award, Karen was honored with the National Readers Choice Award in 2008 for her novel, Learning to Breathe . Her ninth novel, The House on Tradd Street , was a finalist in the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book of the Year Award in 2009.  Karen lives near Atlanta and writes about what she knows the best--the South.

Reeden Wright

Southern Indie Lit Crossword Puzzle Book

P. Ivan Young

A Shape in the Waves

Ivan Young grew up in Columbia , South Carolina and received a B.S. in Zoology from Clemson University and an M. F. A. from the University of South Carolina .   His work has appeared in The London Magazine, North American Review, Southern Humanities Review, Cider Press Review, Cream City Review, and Fourteen Hills among others.   He teaches Poetry and Creative Writing at Salisbury University in Maryland where he lives with his wife and their two children.