Marlin Barton

Marlin Barton is from the Black Belt region of Alabama. His newest book is a novel, Children of Dust. He's published two earlier novels, The Cross Garden and A Broken Thing, and three collections of short stories, The Dry Well, Dancing by the River, and Pasture Art. His stories have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, including Prize Stories, 1994: The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories, 2010. He's also been awarded the Truman Capote Prize for short fiction.He teaches in, and helps direct, the Writing Our Stories project, a program for juvenile offenders created by the Alabama Writers' Forum, and he's been teaching in the low-residency MFA program at Converse College since 2010.