More on: Prose

Lindsey Griffin’s story in issue 80 first caught our eye with the way she writes about Miami. “Tenebrae” is an excellent example of how setting can make a story believable and compelling through small details executed well. Griffin was a transplant to Florida (she grew up in the Midwest and returned there soon after getting…

Nathan Poole’s is a contemporary southern voice that feels at once strange and familiar. His prose has a generous lyricism, an unapologetic love of beauty, and an unhurried pacing that feel classically southern, but a style and freshness that are his own. His writing about the land (often his home state of South Carolina) inherits…