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.