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Occupation
  
Novelist

Notable awards
  
Edgar Award Finalist

Nationality
  
American


Born
  
December 11, 1983 (age 33) Charlotte, North Carolina, United States (
1983-12-11
)

Alma mater
  
Western Carolina University

Notable works
  
'Where All Light Tends to Go

Education
  
Western Carolina University

Nominations
  
Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author

Books
  
Where All Light Tends to, The Weight of This World, Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherma

Similar
  
Ron Rash, Daniel Woodrell, William Gay, Larry Brown

Profiles

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David Joy (born December 11, 1983), is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Career

David Joy is the author of the Edgar award nominated novel Where All Light Tends To Go (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2015), as well as the novels The Weight Of This World (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2017) and The Line That Held Us (G. P. Putnam's Sons, TBD). He is also the author of the memoir Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman's Journey (Bright Mountain Books, 2011), which was a finalist for the Reed Environmental Writing Award and the Ragan Old North State Award.

Joy is the recipient of an artist fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council. His writing has appeared in numerous magazines and journals, and has been nominated for awards such as the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Webster, North Carolina.

Novels

  • Where All Light Tends to Go (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2015)
  • The Weight of This World (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2017)
  • The Line That Held Us (G. P. Putnam's Sons, TBD)

    • Memoirs

  • Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman’s Journey (2011)

    • Short Stories

  • “Stink Bait.” Writer’s Bone (March 10, 2016).
  • “Burning Off Into Forever.” Appalachia Now: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia. Eds. Larry Smith and Charles Dodd White. Huron, OH: Bottom Dog Press, 2015. 40-46.
  • “What Cannot Be Carried Alone.” Still: The Journal, Issue 18 (Spring 2015).
  • “The Line That Held Us.” Pisgah Review, 7.1 (Winter 2013): 26-34.
  • “The Stars Shall Withdraw Their Shining.” Flycatcher, No. 3 (Summer/Fall 2013).

    • Essays

  • “My Privilege, Our Problem." Charlotte Magazine. 22 Sept. 2016.
  • “One Place misUnderstood.” The Huffington Post (reprint). 23 June 2016.
  • “One Place misUnderstood.” Writer’s Bone. 21 June 2016.
  • “The Last Hotdog I Ever Ate.” Charlotte Magazine (October 2015): 37-40.
  • “The Man Who Carried Snakes.” The Good Men Project. 15 August 2015.
  • “The Long Row.” Drafthorse Literary Journal 1.2 (Summer 2012).
  • “Creatures of Fire.” Smoky Mountain Living 10.3 (Summer 2010): 44-47.
  • “Sound of Silence.” Smoky Mountain Living 10.1 (Winter 2010): 42-45.
  • “Native.” Smoky Mountain Living 9.4 (Summer 2009): 54-56.
  • “Breaking in the Cork.” Wilderness House Literary Review 4.1 (Spring 2009): 1-9.
  • “Tired and Feathered.” Bird Watcher's Digest 31.2 (Nov/Dec 2008): 80-82.

    • Translations

  • Là où les lumières se perdent. Paris: Sonatine Editions, 2016. (French; first edition)

    • Awards

  • 2017 International Dublin Literary Award Longlist for Where All Light Tends To Go'
  • 2016 Edgar Award Finalist for Best First Novel
  • 2016 Macavity Awards Finalist for Best First Novel
  • 2015 SIBA Pat Conroy Book Award Finalist, The Lords of Discipline Thriller Prize
  • 2015 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award Finalist
  • 2012 Ragan Old North State Award Finalist
  • 2012 Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist
  • 2011 Roosevelt-Ashe Conservation Award Finalist

    • Interviews

    Interviews with the author.

    Television Appearances

  • Arizona PBS, "Books & Co." (May 21, 2015)

    • References

    David Joy (author) Wikipedia
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