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SILAS HOUSE
— recipient of the 2003 Fellowship of Southern Writer's
James Still Award for Writing of the Appalachian South—received
a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts for his first
novel, Clay Quilt, which was chosen as a finalist for
the SEBA Book Award, AWA Book of the Year, and the Weatherford
Prize, and won Bronze Book of the Year from ForeWord
Magazine. A contributing writer to NPR's All Things Considered
and President of the Appalachian Writers Association, his stories
have been anthologized in books such as Stories from the Blue
Moon Cafe and Christmas Stories from the South.
He lives in Lily, Kentucky, with his wife and two daughters, where
he is at work on his third novel.
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