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Neil O’Boyle Connelly’s second novel, Buddy Cooper Finds a Way (Simon and Schuster), explores the connections between QVC, faith healing, divorce, asteroids, and professional wrestling. The book was chosen by Amazon.com as a Breakout Book. St. Michael's Scales (Arthur A. Levine), Connelly's first book, was listed as "Best of the Best 2002" by Borders books. His short fiction has appeared in The Yalobusha Review, The Southeast Review (formerly Sundog), and Speak, among other journals. His story "The Adventures of Ultimate Man" was published in River City and subsequently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Neil has also been included by Oxford American in a list of prominent Southern novelists. His third novel, The Healer Boy's Sister, will be published in fall of 2010.
Connelly is the recipient of the 2004 Pinnacle Teaching Excellence Award as well as a fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts.
For reviews of Connelly's work, click Buddy Cooper Finds a Way or St. Michael's Scales.
Morri Creech was born in Moncks Corner, South Carolina in 1970, and was educated at Winthrop University and McNeese State University. He currently lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana with his daughter Hattie and teaches in the MFA Program at McNeese State University. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Criterion, The New Republic, The Southwest Review, The Hudson Review, Crazyhorse, Critical Quarterly, Sewanee Review, Southern Review, and elsewhere. He has published one previous poetry collection, Paper Cathedrals (Kent State University Press, 2001), and, in collaboration with the photographer Robert ParkeHarrison, two museum-quality limited editions (21st). He has received the Stan and Tom Wick Award from Kent State University Press, a $15,000 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry Magazine and the Modern Poetry Foundation, an artist's fellowship from The Louisiana Division of the Arts, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He was recently awarded a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
For an in depth look at Morri's latest book, Field Knowledge, check out http://www.waywiser-press.com/creech.html
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