He received the Arkansas Arts Council grant for the short story in August of 1998. In July of 1998, he won the Writers at Work Literary Nonfiction Contest. In addition to the Edgar Allan Poe award, Franklin has been honored several times for his literary achievements. The story focuses on a feud which occurred in 1899. Like Poachers, Hell at the Breechis set in Alabama, this time in Clarke County, Tom Franklin’s childhood home. Currently, Franklin is working on a second book called Hell at the Breech, which is to be published by Harper Collins. Poachers is to be published in British, French, Japanese, and German versions. The title story was recognized with the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Mystery Story. It is a collection of ten short stories set in Alabama. His writings have also been included in anthologies such as New Stories from the South The Year’s Best, 1999 Best American Mystery Stories, 19 and Best Mystery Stories of the Century.įranklin has published one book to date (See UPDATE below) called Poachers: Stories, published in 1999 by William Morrow and Company. His short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines including The Chattahoochee Review, Brightleaf, The Nebraska Review, The Texas Review, Quarterly West, and Smoke Magazine, to name a few. Photo courtesy of Ace Atkins (2018)įellowship, Franklin taught at Sewannee during the academic year 2002-2003.Īs a writer, Tom Franklin has found great success. After graduating from the University of South Alabama, Tom Franklin earned his MFA in fiction at the University of Arkansas in 1998.Īuthors Tom Franklin, William Boyle, and Ace Atkins. He was employed as a heavy equipment operator at a sandblasting grit factory, a construction inspector in a chemical plant, a clerk at a hospital morgue, and he also worked at hazardous waste clean-up sites. While attending the University of South Alabama, Tom Franklin worked nights at various places.
In 1981 he moved with his family to Mobile, Alabama, and later attended the University of South Alabama in Mobile where he earned his BA in English. Thomas Gerald Franklin was born in the small southern town of Dickinson, Alabama, on July 7, 1963. The Alumni Grill: Anthology of Southern Writers Vol II (edited by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly).The Tilted World, novel co-authored with his wife Beth Ann Fennelly (2013).Photo of Tom Franklin by Maude Schyler Clay, Courtesy of Beth Ann Fennelly
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