Casey Clabough is the author of the novel _Confederado_, the travel memoir _The Warrior's Path: Reflections Along an Ancient Route_, and five scholarly books on southern and Appalachian writers, including _Inhabiting Contemporary Southern & Appalachian Literature: Region & Place in the 21st Century_. Clabough serves as editor of the literature section of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities' _Encyclopedia Virginia_ and as general editor of the literary journal _James Dickey Review_, which Pat Conroy has praised for becoming “a unique southern literary institution under Clabough's expert guidance." Clabough’s work has appeared in over seventy anthologies and magazines, including _Creative Nonfiction_, the _Sewanee Review_ and _the Virginia Quarterly Review_. His awards include several U.S.-based fellowships, an artists’ fellowship from the Brazilian Government. and the Bangladesh International Literary Award,. He lives on a farm in Appomattox County, Virginia and teaches at Lynchburg College. His eighth book, a biography of legendary southern writer George Garrett, is available as of October 2013.
Publications and Prizes
Books:
Confederado (Ingalls Publishing Group, 2012), Inhabiting Contemporary Southern & Appalachian Literature (University Press of Florida, 2012), The Warrior's Path: Reflection Along an Ancient Route (University of Tennessee Press, 2007)
Journals:
African American Review, Appalachian Heritage, Atlantic Monthly, Blackbird, Callaloo, Chattahoochee Review, Creative Nonfiction, Danse Macabre, Harper's, Hollins Critic, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment , James Dickey Review, Journal of Appalachian Studies, Magazine Americana , Mosaic, Nantahala Review, Rhizomes, Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, South Carolina Review, Southern Quarterly, Texas Review, The Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, Yale Review
Prizes:
Bangladesh International Literary Award
Artist's Fellowship, Brazil
Fellowship, Virginia Foundation for Humanities
Fellowship, Harrison Institute
Fellowship, Institute for Southern Studies
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Listing last updated: March 21, 2013