Tom Bailey

Tom Bailey was born in Greenwood, Mississippi. Growing up he
lived in North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Virginia, and
West Virginia. He is the author of A Short Story Writer's
Companion (2001) and the editor of On Writing Short Stories
(2000). Widely published in literary journals and magazines,
including DoubleTake, his fiction has been reprinted in such
anthologies as The Pushcart Prizes and New Stories From the
South and cited in The Best American Short Stories. He is
the recipient of a Newhouse Award from the John Gardner
Foundation and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship in Fiction. Etruscan Press published his first
book of stories, Crow Man (2003), and Shaye Areheart at
Random House published The Grace that Keeps this World in
the fall of 2005.