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Thomas G.
Franklin was born in Dickinson, Alabama, in 1963. In 1981 he moved with
his family to Mobile, where he attended the University of South Alabama.
In 1998, he earned his MFA in fiction at the University of Arkansas.
Franklin returned to Alabama to teach at the
University of South Alabama. That fall, he became the Phillip Roth
Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University in Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania. In 2000, he took the position of Writer-in-Residence
at Knox College.
Currently, Franklin is the John and Rene Grisham Writer-in- Residence at
the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.
His short stories and essays have been published in numerous
magazines including The Chattahoochee Review,
Brightleaf, The Nebraska Review, The Texas
Review, Quarterly West, and Smoke Magazine,
to name a few. His writings have also been included in anthologies
such as New Stories from the South; The Year's
Best, 1999; Best American Mystery Stories, 1999 and
2000; and Best Mystery Stories of the Century.
Franklin has published two book
Poachers : Stories,
and
Hell at the Breech : A Novel
Read SLR's
2005 interview with Tom
Franklin, as well as our
2006 interview.
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