Skip Horack is the author of the novel “The Eden Hunter” and the story collection “The Southern Cross.”
In its review of “The Southern Cross” — which won the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference’s Bakeless Prize – The Rumpus noted that: “With perceptiveness and deep intelligence, Horack inhabits a stunning range of characters young and old, male and female, black and white, and shows them entwined with each other, and inseparable from where they live. ‘The Southern Cross’ marks the arrival of an important new writer — not only a Southern writer, but an American one.”
Library Journal called “The Eden Hunter” “a visceral and authentic account of a distinctive character and his quest for freedom. For some readers, this work may bring to mind Charles Frazier’s ‘Cold Mountain’ or Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved.’ ”
His work has appeared in Oxford American, Epoch, The Southern Review, Narrative Magazine and many other publications.
A native of Louisiana, Horack is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, where he was also a Wallace Stegner Fellow.
Visit him online at www.skiphorack.com.
