Steph Post is the author of the novels A Tree Born Crooked, Lightwood, Walk in the Fire, Holding Smoke, Miraculum and Terra Incognita—gold medal winner of the 2024 Florida Book Award. She graduated from Davidson College as a recipient of the Patricia Cornwell Scholarship for Creative Writing and a winner of the Vereen Bell Writing Award for fiction. She holds a Master’s degree in Graduate Liberal Studies from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her work has most recently appeared in Garden & Gun, Nonbinary Review, Saw Palm, Black Lily and the anthology Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, a Rhysling Award and was a semi-finalist for The Big Moose Prize. She lives in Florida. Connect with Steph Post on Instagram @stephpostauthor, Facebook /stpostvegas, or on her website www.stephpost.com.
Word of South is excited to welcome Steph Post to the Festival, where she will appear in collaboration with R.L. Akers.