Tom Franklin

Tom Franklin was born and raised in south Alabama, where he worked as a heavy-equipment operator in a grit factory, a construction inspector in a chemical plant and a clerk in hospital morgue. In 1997 he received his MFA from the University of Arknsas and now teaches fiction writing at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. His stories and essays have been published in various literary magazines and have won several awards. He is married to the poet Beth Ann Fennelly.