Ron Rash’s short story collection Chemistry and Other Stories was one of the 4 runnerups for this year’s PEN/Faulkner Award. The award went to Kate Christensen’s novel The Great Man.
Rash lives in Clemson, SC and is the Parris chair in Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University, where he teaches creative writing.
His novels have one a variety of awards, including Saints at the River, which was the 2005 SEBA Best Fiction Book of the Year.
Tags: PEN/Faulkner Award, Ron Rash
