Praise for ‘Father Brother Keeper’
“Somber, beautifully wrought and closely observed, these 12 stories raise more questions than answers, leave out more than they say. As the title suggests, the characters’ lives are steeped in familial conflicts that test their faith in and love for each other.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution“This moving debut collection examines complicated family relationships in the rural American South … The book is unified by a theme of sons and daughters succeeding their father … This is a fine collection, rich with symbolism and rhythmic prose.”—Publishers Weekly
Author Nathan Poole will kick off Lee University’s Writer’s Festival with a reading today, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. in the School of Nursing Building, Room 202, on the Cleveland, Tenn., campus.
Poole is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of South Alabama. He is the author of “Father Brother Keeper,” a collection of stories selected by Edith Pearlman for the 2013 Mary McCarthy Prize and long-listed for the international Frank O’Connor Award. He is also the author of “Pathkiller as the Holy Ghost,” a novella selected by Benjamin Percy as the winner of the 2014 Quarterly West Novella Contest.
Poole’s stories have appeared in national journals Ecotone, the Kenyon Review, Narrative Magazine, Image, The Chattahoochee Review and The Saturday Evening Post.
He has been awarded the Narrative Prize, a Milton Fellowship at Seattle Pacific University, a Joan Beebe Teaching Fellowship at Warren Wilson College and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
“Poole writes about characters who experience crises of belief and find joy, hope and glimpses of God,” says Dr. William Woolfitt, assistant professor of creative writing at Lee.
Robert Morgan, author of six novels, including best-seller and Oprah Book Club selection “Gap Creek,” will present a reading in spring 2018 as part of the Writer’s Festival.
For more information on the Writer’s Festival, email Woolfitt at wwoolfitt@leeuniversity.edu.