Clint McCownClint McCown was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee and spent most of his youth in Birmingham, Alabama during the racial conflicts of the early 1960's. Before turning to fiction, he worked as a journalist in Montgomery, Alabama, earning an Associated Prss Award for Documentary Excellence for his investigations of organized crime and corruption in Alabama politics. He has twice won the American Fiction Prize. His novel, The Member-Guest, received the Society of Midland Authors Award; his novel, War Memorials, was designated for Outstanding Achievement in Literature by the Wisconsin Library Association. His short stories and poems have appeared widely, and he has published two books of verse. He teaches in the creative writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University . In 2008, he published Dead Languages, a book of poems. Read More Read Less