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Neal is a masterful novelist: he makes it look so easy.
Lewis Buzbee, author of The Yellow-Lighted Bookstore |
Dale Neal is the author of the upcoming novel Kings of Coweetsee, exploring how change comes to a hill born and hill bound people in a mountain community. His previous novels, Appalachian Book of the Dead, The Half-Life of Home, and Cow Across America, are all set in the storied Blue Ridge Mountains. His short fiction and essays have appeared in Arts & Letters, Carolina Quarterly, Marlboro Review, Crescent Review and many other literary journals.
A graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, he has been awarded fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hambidge Center and the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland. One of the last surviving American journalists, he was a prize-winning writer for the Asheville Citizen-Times, having covered entrepreneurs, police, local government, religion, arts, books and Cherokee culture. He currently teaches fiction at the Lenoir-Rhyne University Graduate Center in Asheville.
A lifelong native of North Carolina, he makes his home in Thomas Wolfe’s old hometown of Asheville with his wife and dogs. When his nose is not buried in some book, he’s bound to be out on the trails of the surrounding Blue Ridge mountains.
A graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, he has been awarded fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hambidge Center and the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland. One of the last surviving American journalists, he was a prize-winning writer for the Asheville Citizen-Times, having covered entrepreneurs, police, local government, religion, arts, books and Cherokee culture. He currently teaches fiction at the Lenoir-Rhyne University Graduate Center in Asheville.
A lifelong native of North Carolina, he makes his home in Thomas Wolfe’s old hometown of Asheville with his wife and dogs. When his nose is not buried in some book, he’s bound to be out on the trails of the surrounding Blue Ridge mountains.