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Thomas G. Franklin was born in Dickinson, Alabama, in 1963.  In 1981 he moved with his family to Mobile, where he attended the University of South Alabama.  In 1998, he earned his MFA in fiction at the University of Arkansas.

Franklin returned to Alabama to teach at the University of South Alabama.  That fall, he became the Phillip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. In 2000, he took the position of Writer-in-Residence at Knox College.

Currently, Franklin is the John and Rene Grisham Writer-in- Residence at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.

His short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines including The Chattahoochee Review, , The Nebraska Review, The Texas Review, Quarterly West, and Smoke Magazine, to name a few.  His writings have also been included in anthologies such as New Stories from the South; The Year’s Best, 1999; Best American Mystery Stories, 1999 and 2000; and Best Mystery Stories of the Century. Brightleaf

Franklin has published two book  Poachers : Stories, and Hell at the Breech : A Novel

Read SLR’s 2005 interview with Tom Franklin, as well as our 2006 interview.