Shaun Turner writes in West Virginia, where he is the Assistant Fiction Editor for the Cheat River Review. His fiction can or will be found in Cleaver Magazine; Word Riot; JONATHAN; and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, among others.
Dixon Hearne
May 5, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dixon Hearne is the author of three short fiction collections and editor of several anthologies. His stories have been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Spur Awards. His book, Plantatia: High-toned and Lowdown Stories of the South was nominated for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award and received another for best general fiction book. His fiction, poetry and […]
Claire Matturro
April 1, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Claire Hamner Matturro was raised on tales of errant kith and kin, whiskey making, and ghosts. Inspired by such stories, she wanted to be a novelist, but pursued more gainful and steady employment first. She’s been a newspaper reporter, a lawyer, and taught at Florida State University College of Law and as a visiting professor of […]
Red Truck Review Interviews SLR Managing Editor Allen Mendenhall
March 15, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The inaugural issue of Red Truck Review: A Journal of American Southern Literature and Culture ran this week and featured this interview and these poems by managing editor Allen Mendenhall. The interview begins with questions about Southern Literary Review and discusses Allen’s recently published book, Literature and Liberty. Red Truck Review is edited by SLR contributor Amy Susan […]
Miles Smith IV
February 5, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Miles Smith, IV, is native of Salisbury, North Carolina. He took his B.A. in History from the College of Charleston in 2006 and his M.A. from the College and the Citadel in 2008. He earned his Ph.D. from Texas Christian University in 2013, where he currently teaches history. He has published several articles in academic […]
Michael Pitts
January 15, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Michael Pitts is a graduate of Samford University where he earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master’s degree in Secondary Education. He also earned a Master’s degree in American Literature at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and currently teaches secondary English with his wife in Daejeon, South Korea.