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Ron Rash's family has lived in the southern Appalachian
Mountains since the mid-1700's, and it is this region that
is the primary focus of his writing. Rash grew up in Boiling
Springs, North Carolina, and graduated from Gardner-Webb
College and Clemson University. He holds the John Parris
Chair in Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University.
Rash is the author of 8 books: The Night The New Jesus
Fell to Earth (short stories), Casualties (short
stories), Eureka Mill (poetry), and Among the
Believers (poetry), Raising the Dead (poetry), One Foot in Eden (novel),
Saints at the River
(novel), and The World Made Straight (2006). His
poetry and fiction have appeared in over one hundred
journals, magazines, and anthologies, including The Longman
Anthology of Southern Literature, Western Wind, Sewanee
Review, Yale Review, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, New
England Review, Southern Review, Shenandoah and Poetry.
In 1994, Rash was awarded an NEA Poetry Fellowship, and he
won the Sherwood Anderson Prize in 1996. In 2001, he won the
Novella Festival Novel Award, and in 2002 the Foreword
Magazine’s Gold Medal in Literary Fiction for One Foot in
Eden. The novel was also named Appalachian Book of the
Year. His second novel, Saints at the River, was
named Fiction Book of the Year by both the Southern Book
Critics Circle and the Southeastern Booksellers Association.
In 2005 Rash won an O. Henry award for his story “Speckled
Trout” and received the James Still Award by the Fellowship
of Southern Writers.

Awards and Special Recognition...
RON RASH
2005 James Still Award Recipient for Writing of the Appalachian South
2005 Thomas and Lillie B. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing Winner
SPECKLED TROUT
O'Henry Award Winner
ONE FOOT IN EDEN
Forward Magazine’s Gold Award for Best Literary Fiction of 2002
Required Reading at the University of South Carolina
SAINTS AT THE RIVER
2005 Southern Book Critics Circle Award Winner
South Eastern Bookseller Association Best Novel Of The Year
2005 Weatherford Award Winner
THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT
2006 Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award Winner
Atlantic Monthly 2006 "Summer Reading" Selection
American Library Association 2007 Alex Award Winner
CHEMISTRY
Story Prize Committee 15 Notable Books of 2007
2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist
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