Dale Neal

Dale Neal is the author of Appalachian Book of the Dead, shortlisted for the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award; Cow Across America, winner of the Novello Literary Award; and The Half-Life of Home. His short stories and essays have appeared in Our State, Smoky Mountain Living, North Carolina Literary Review, Carolina Quarterly and elsewhere. He earned an MFA in creative writing at Warren Wilson College. He teaches fiction at Lenoir-Rhyne University's Asheville Center for Graduate Studies. He lives in...See more

Dale Neal is the author of Appalachian Book of the Dead, shortlisted for the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award; Cow Across America, winner of the Novello Literary Award; and The Half-Life of Home. His short stories and essays have appeared in Our State, Smoky Mountain Living, North Carolina Literary Review, Carolina Quarterly and elsewhere. He earned an MFA in creative writing at Warren Wilson College. He teaches fiction at Lenoir-Rhyne University's Asheville Center for Graduate Studies. He lives in Asheville. See less