Keith Morris

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Keith Morris

Keith Morris

Keith Lee Morris is the author of Travelers Rest, as well as two previous novels, The Greyhound God and The Dart League King (a Barnes & Noble Discover pick). His short stories have been published in New Stories from the South, Tin House, A Public Space, New England Review, and Southern Review, which awarded him its Eudora Welty Prize in fiction. Morris lives in South Carolina, where he is a professor of creative writing at Clemson University.

“What a testament it is to a splendid novelist’s powers to pitch-perfectly create a small-town . . . and in doing so not only illuminate the zeitgeist but some universal truths to boot. Keith Lee Morris is a writer whose books I have promised myself never to skip.”
— Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer-winning author of A Good Scent from Strange Mountain