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Tyler Keith was born and raised in the Florida panhandle. He moved to Mississippi at eighteen and received a degree in English literature at the University of Mississippi, where he studied writing under Barry Hannah. He spent the next twenty years writing songs and playing in the bands the Neckbones, Tyler Keith and the Preacher’s Kids, … Continued

Beverly Lowry is the winner of this year’s Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing for nonfiction for her book Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta. She is the author of six novels and four previous works of nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New … Continued

Adam Haver is the winner of this year’s Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing for poetry for his poem “There Are Words That Conjure.” He previously served as literary editor for the Salt Lake Community College magazine, FOLIO, has been published in numerous journals, and enjoys translating poetry. He resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, … Continued

Destiny O. Birdsong is the winner of this year’s Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing for fiction for her debut book,Nobody’s Magic. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review Daily, African American Review, and Catapult, among other publications. She has received the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Richard G. Peterson Poetry Prize. … Continued

Michael X. Wang was born in Fenyang, a small coal-mining city in China’s mountainous Shanxi Province. He immigrated to the United States when he was six and has lived in ten states. He holds a PhD in literature from Florida State University and an MFA in fiction from Purdue. His story collection, Further News of Defeat, … Continued