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Before Silas House wrote
stories for a living, he delivered mail and smoked cigarettes, all the
while thinking up stories and crafting them for the sheer pleasure of
writing. Born and raised in
Lily, Kentucky, Silas House was
soon known as a talented writer. In
2000, House was made the South's "Ten Emerging Writers" by the
Millennial Gathering of Vanderbilt University. In 2001, he became
nationally recognized with the publication of
Clay's Quilt, a novel that was well-received by both readers and
critics. Since then he has written
The Coal Tattoo
and
A Parchment of Leaves
House graduated from Sue
Bennett College and Eastern Kentucky University. His short fiction has
been published in The Beloit Fiction Journal,
Night Train, The Louisville Review, Bayou, and such anthologies as New
Stories From the South: The Year's Best, 2004; Stories From the Blue
Moon Cafe (Volumes I and II); and A Kentucky Christmas.
He is also a contributing
editor for No Depression magazine, and a frequent contributor to NPR's
"All Things Considered," where he reads his short fiction.
Currently, House is a
professor at Eastern Kentucky
University and Spalding University’s MFA in Writing program . He
lives in Eastern Kentucky with his
wife and two daughters.
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