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has published seven collections of stories, two novels, and a book of writing advice. His next collection, Staff Picks, is  available  from LSU Press. He’s been anthologized in the Pushcart series and New Stories from the South. A past Guggenheim fellow, he’s a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and holds the John C. Cobb Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.