Steven Sherrill was born and raised in North Carolina.  He received a Welding Diploma from Mitchell Community College before  pursuing a career in writing. He applied to both the fiction and poetry schools within the prestigious Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He earned his M.F.A. in poetry and applied his poetry to his prose in two outstanding novels that demonstrate a disciplined skill for storytelling. 

Sherrill was the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Fiction for 2002 and published his first novel, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, soon thereafter.  It has since then been translated into eight languages.  Since then he has written two additional novels, Visits From The Drowned Girl, and The Locktender’s House: A Novel. Steven also writes for the Kenyon Review, River Styx, and Georgia Review, among many others. He lives in Pennsylvania where he is an  Assistant Professor of English and Integrative Arts at Penn State Altoona.

See our book review on
Visits from the Drowned Girl.

SLR’s Editor talks with Steven Sherrill click here for the interview!