A Shared Voice, edited by Tom Mack and Andrew Geyer
  | Tom Mack joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina Aiken in 1976. Since that time, he has established an enviable “record of teaching excellence as well as outstanding performance in research and public service” for which the USC Board of Trustees awarded him the prestigious Carolina Trustee Professorship in 2008. He currently holds the G. L. Toole Chair in English. Over the years, Dr. Mack has written over 100 articles and chapters about American literature and American cultural history. Furthermore, since 1990, he has contributed a weekly column in The Aiken Standard on a wide range of topics in the humanities. He is also the founding editor of The Oswald Review, the first international refereed journal of undergraduate research in the discipline of English; all articles published in TOR are available in digitalized form on library databases hosted by EBSCO Publishing. Tom Mack’s other book titles include Circling the Savannah: Cultural Landmarks of the Central Savannah River Area (The History Press), Hidden History of Aiken County (The History Press), and The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers (University of South Carolina Press). Dr. Mack is currently Chair of the Board of Governors of the South Carolina Academy of Authors, the organization responsible for managing the state’s literary hall of fame. http://web.usca.edu/english/faculty-biographies/tom-mack.dot Andrew Geyer’s latest novel is Dixie Fish (Ink Brush Press 2011). The novel chronicles the life of Walt Whitman Woodcock, a Southwest Texas ranch boy who comes to Columbia, SC, with a seven-point plan for achieving true bliss. Armed with a phonographic memory–everything he hears, he remembers–a job waiting tables at the Dixie Fish, and a fraudulent admission to graduate school, W.W.W. sets about the task of creating nirvana in the capital of South Carolina. Geyer’s other books are Siren Songs from the Heart of Austin (Ink Brush Press 2010), a story cycle; Meeting the Dead (University of New Mexico Press 2007), a novel; and Whispers in Dust and Bone (Texas Tech University Press 2003), a story cycle that won the silver medal for short fiction in the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards and the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. Geyer’s short stories have appeared in dozens of journals and anthologies, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. In addition to writing and publishing fiction, he has served in various editorial capacities for several literary magazines including Iron Horse Literary Review and the Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas. He currently serves as fiction editor for Concho River Review. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, Geyer was born in Austin and grew up on a working cattle ranch in Southwest Texas. A lover of the outdoors and an avid runner and canoeist, he has traveled extensively in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, and North Africa. He currently lives in Aiken, South Carolina, where he serves as Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Aiken. http://www.andrewgeyer.org/ |
