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«Back to Authors and Guests Paco Ahlgren BOOK:Discipline PRESENTING:Saturday 11:20 Congaree Meeting Room A&B; Saturday 4:30 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B www.pacoahlgren.comPaco Ahlgren is an author, musician, and has worked as a financial analyst for sixteen years. He has spent the last two decades examining the connections between quantum physics and its implications on modern scientific, economic, financial, and psychological theories, as well as its incontrovertible similarities to Eastern philosophies and religions--most notably, Taoism. Discipline, his first novel, is a confluence of these passions. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Fiction Mystery Literary First Novel |
 Elise Blackwell BOOK:Grub PRESENTING:Saturday 2:00 p.m. Congaree Meeting Room A&B; Sunday 12:45 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B; Sunday 3:00 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B http://www.tobypress.com/books/grub.htmElise Blackwell is the author of three novels: Hunger, The Unnatural History of CATEGORIES: Fiction Literary |
 Kwame Dawes BOOK:Gomer's Song, She's Gone PRESENTING:Saturday 2:00 p.m. Carolina Meeting Room; Saturday 4:30 p.m. Carolina Meeting Room www.kwamedawes.comKwame Dawes is Distinguished Poet in Residence, Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts and Founder and executive Director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. He is the director of the University of South Carolina Arts Institute and the programming director of the Calabash International Literary Festival, which takes place in Jamaica in May of each year. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Poetry Fiction Literary Short Story |
 Lauren Groff BOOK:Monsters of Templeton PRESENTING:Saturday 12:40 p.m. Richland Meeting Room C; Saturday 3:20 p.m. Congaree Meeting Room A&B; Sunday 4:10 p.m. Richland Meeting Room C www.laurengroff.comLauren Groff was born in 1978 in Cooperstown, N.Y., and grew up one block from the Baseball Hall of Fame. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares and Five Points, and will apear this fall in the anthologies Best American Short Stories 2007, Pushcart Prize XXXII, and Best New American Voices 2008. She was awarded the Axton Fellowship in Fiction at the University of Louisville and has had residencies and fellowships at Yaddo and the Vermont Studio Center. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Fiction Literary First Novel |
 Sheri Joseph BOOK:Stray PRESENTING:Saturday 4:30 p.m. Congaree Meeting Room A&B; Sunday 12:45 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B www.sherijoseph.comSheri Joseph’s novel Stray (MacAdam/Cage, 2007), which has just been reprinted in paperback, was awarded the Grub Street National Book Prize. Her cycle of stories, Bear Me Safely Over (Grove/Atlantic Press, 2002), was a Book Sense 76 selection in both hardcover and paperback. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals including The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and she has received summer fellowships to Yaddo, MacDowell, and other artist retreats. She teaches in the creative writing program at Georgia State University, where she also serves as fiction editor of Five Points literary magazine. CATEGORIES: Fiction Literary Literary Magazine or Review Editor |
 Will Allison BOOK:What You Have Left PRESENTING:Saturday 12:40 p.m. Richland Meeting Room C; Saturday 3:20 p.m. Congaree Meeting Room A&B www.willallison.comWill Allison’s first novel, What You Have Left, was published last year by Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Audio and paperback editions are due out this year. The book is set in CATEGORIES: Fiction Literary First Novel Southern Fiction |
 Janette Turner Hospital BOOK:Orpheus Lost PRESENTING:Sunday 2:00 p.m. Ballroom http://www.janetteturnerhospital.com/photo credit: Jason Ayer and Phil SawyerREAD MORECATEGORIES: Fiction Literary |
 Josephine Humphreys BOOK:Nowhere Else on Earth PRESENTING:Saturday 12:40 p.m. Lexington Meeting Room A&B http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/nowhere_else_on_earth.htmlJosephine Humphreys is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. She is the author of Dreams of Sleep (winner of the 1985 Ernest Hemingway Award for first fiction), Rich in Love (made into a major motion picture), and The Fireman's Fair. Her most recent novel is Nowhere Else on Earth, which is set on the banks of the Lumbee River and drawn from the true history of North Carolina's Lumbee Indians. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Fiction Literary Southern Fiction |
 Tito Perdue BOOK:Fields of Asphodel PRESENTING:Saturday 2:00 p.m. Richland Meeting Room C; Sunday 12:45 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B www.titoperdue.com/Tito Perdue was born in 1938 in Chile, South America, where his father, an Alabama native, was employed as an electrical engineer with the Braden Copper Company. Returning to the United States in 1941, his family settled in Anniston, Alabama, remaining there until his father’s employer relocated to St. Louis in 1955. In 1956 Tito graduated from Indian Springs School, a private academy located south of Birmingham, and was admitted to Antioch College in Ohio, an institution from which he was expelled in 1957 for having cohabited off-campus with the former Judy Clark, also an Antioch student. They were married later that year, both at age 18, and are together still. His latest novel is Fields of Asphodel. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Fiction Literary |
 Joni Tevis BOOK:The Wet Collection PRESENTING:Saturday 10:00 a.m. Congaree Meeting Room A www.jonitevis.comJoni Tevis is from Easley, South Carolina, and earned her PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program. Her work has been published in Isotope, Shenandoah, Conjunctions, North Dakota Quarterly, Plenty, and elsewhere. The Wet Collection, her book of lyric essays, was published in August 2007 by Milkweed Editions. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. CATEGORIES: Literary Essay |