Greg Bottoms

Greg Bottoms is the author of a memoir, Angelhead, an Esquire Magazine "Book of the Year," two books of essays about American outsider artists, The Colorful Apocalypse (2007) and Spiritual American Trash (2013) as well as three genre-defying collections of autobiographical prose -- Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks (2001), Fight Scenes (2008) and Swallowing the Past (2011). His work can also be found in Oxford American, Agni and numerous other venues. He is the essays editor of Texas Review and teaches creative writing at the University of Vermont, where he is a Professor of English.