Mark Beaver is the author of the memoir Suburban Gospel. His prose has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Gulf Coast, Crazyhorse, North American Review, Ninth Letter,Tampa Review, storySouth, Louisville Review,Third Coast, Fugue, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. He’s a graduate of the UNCG MFA Program and lives with his wife and daughters in his native Atlanta.
For more about Mark, visit www.markbeaver.com
What’s refreshing about this coming-of-age memoir set in the New South is Mark Beaver’s voice: at once self-sure and puzzled, funny and humble, clear-eyed and confused about how growing up works. Suburban Gospel pulls no punches about what it means to be a bewildered kid growing up in the 1980s, trying to map the conjunction of sex, church, social standing and girls, all with a razor-sharp wit and a tender heart too. Mark Beaver is a terrific writer, Suburban Gospel a terrific book.
— Brett Lott, author of Jewell
