Clint McCownClint McCown has published six previous collections of poems, four novels, a collection of short fiction, a collection of essays, and a craft book on writing fiction. His poems, fiction, and essays have appeared in more than ninety-five national magaines and journals. He is the only two-time winner of the American Fiction Prize. Additionally, his work has been honored with the Midwest Book Award, the Society of Midland Authors Award, the Gable Prize from Graywolf Press, the Germain Breé Book Award, three Notable Essay citations in the Best American Essays series, an NEA grant, more than forty Pushcart nominations, and the Associated Press Award for Documentary Excellence for his investigations of organized crime and political corruption. He received theatre training at the Circle-in-the-Square on Broadway and is a former principal actor with the National Shakespeare Company and the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre. Several of his plays have been produced, and he has worked as a screenwriter for Warner Bros. and as a creative consultant for HBO Television. He is a former editor of Indiana Review and was the founder of the Beloit Fiction Journal, which he edited for twenty years; for four years he served as General Editor for the AWP Intro Journals Awards. He is a professor emeritus in the graduate writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University and for twenty years he served as a member of the writing faculty for the Vermont College of Fine Arts low-residency MFA program. In 2021 he was inducted into the Writers Hall of Fame at Wake Forest University. Read More Read Less