Thomas McConnell

Thomas McConnell's work has appeared in the Connecticut Review, The Cortland Review, Yemassee, Emrys Journal and Crossroads: A Southerm Annual. His honors include a Porter Fleming Award, recognition from the South Carolina Fiction Project, the H. E. Francis Award and the Hardagee Award for Fiction. He has lectured and read in Berlin, Istanbul and Paris, and he serves on the editorial board of Hub City Books. Educated at the University of the South and the University of Georgia, he is now professor of English at the University of South Carolina Upstate.
Reading List
Her Last Boy
Let me tell you bout my boy, she says, the way they do, the gnarled walnut knuckles working like the gnarled walnut of their cheeks swollen with that pride that slows her speech from the gallop it also wants her …