I am published or accepted by Writer's Eye, Keyhole Magazine, Smokelong Quarterly, Cautionary Tale, Static Movement, Dew on the Kudzu and The Dead Mule, et al, and am a contributor to Hillbilly Savants and Appalachian Writers. I was a 2007 guest contributor on the subject of Appalachian women for Feministe. I was nominated for the 2006 Million Writers Award for my story Cat Fur Jelly.
I hold a BA and an MFA from the University of South Carolina. I spent most of my life traveling and working in the film, theater and broadcast news industries in the UK and the US. Former employers include the BBC and CNN.
I live on the verge of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park where I raise dairy goats, sheep, make art and document Appalachian culture.
Most of my writing falls into the category of Southern Literary Fiction--though I have been known to make forays into other genres. I am not what they call a writer of the "New South". I have been influenced by writers like Flannery O'Connor, Marjorie Rawlings, William Price Fox, Hunter S. Thompson, Murakami Haruki and Kurt Vonnegut.
Some of my favorite writers include Dorothy Allison, George Singleton, Silas House, Brad Watson, Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, Tom Franklin and many others.
I also read a lot of trash, watch anime, wuxia, Japanese feudal dramas and am, generally, befuddled by poetry.
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"Understand me. What I am here for is to tell you
stories you may not want to hear. What I am
here for is to rescue my dead. And to scare hell
out of you now and then. I was raised Baptist, I
know how to do that." ~Dorothy Allison
rosiewolf's Genres: Fiction, Southern Literary Fiction
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