James Braziel is the author of the story collection, This Ditch-Walking Love, winner of the Tartt First Fiction Award (Livingston Press, 2021). These stories are about the people who live on the Cumberland Plateau in rural Alabama. Ditch-Walking has been nominated for a Pen Faulkner Award. His two novels—Birmingham, 35 Miles and Snakeskin Road (both with Bantam)—look at an environmental disaster in the South in the near-future. He has received fellowships from The Alabama State Council on the Arts and Georgia Council for the Arts. He was an artist-in-residence at Hot Springs National Park. His work has appeared in journals and newspapers, including the New York Times. He lives and writes in a glass cabin he is building by hand with his wife, poet Tina Mozelle Braziel.
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