LidDarenDean

Daren Dean is the author of the novel Far Beyond the Pale, I'll Still Be Here Long After You're Gone: Stories, The Black Harvest: A Novel of the American Civil War, and This Vale of Tears. He has been featured in Bloom, Huffpost, Kirkus Reviews, Ploughshares, and The Columbia Tribune. His work has appeared in Bull (Men's Fiction), The Chattahoochee Review, Ecotone online, Fiction Southeast, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, Image, Louisiana Literature, Maryland Literary Review, Midwestern Gothic, The Oklahoma Review, StorySouth, Yemassee, and many others. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times. The Black Harvest has been nominated for the Pen/Faulkner, the W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction, and the Midland Authors Award. He did his undergraduate work at Central Methodist University as an English Fellow. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lincoln University of Missouri. He now lives in Jefferson City, Missouri, with his wife, Cassie, and children, Claira and Finn.