grew up in Knockemstiff, Ohio, and quit high school at seventeeen to work in a meatpacking plant. He then spent thirty-two years employed as a laborer at the Mead Paper Corporation in Chillicothe, Ohio, before enrolling in the M.F.A. program at Ohio State University. His first book, a collection of stories called Knockemstiff, won the 2009 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship. Read more at Chapter 16.
Presentation: Friday, 4:00-5:00 pm, House Chambers; Sign: Friday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
