SKIP HORACK
author of THE SOUTHERN CROSS
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THE SOUTHERN CROSS
The sixteen short stories featured in Skip Horack’s prize-winning debut collection paint a richly textured vision of the American South. Set in the Gulf Coast over the course of a year torn halfway by the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, these stories, filled with humor, restraint, and verve, follow the lives of an assembly of unforgettable characters. An exonerated ex-con who may not be entirely innocent, a rabbit farmer in mourning, and an earnest young mariner trying to start a new life with his wife—all are characters that populate the spirited cities and drowsy parishes in Horack’s marvelous portrait of the South. "A knockout winner" for guest judge Antonya Nelson, The Southern Cross marks the arrival of a standout new voice. (Mariner Books, August 2009)
SKIP HORACK was born and raised in Louisiana, attended Florida State University, and practiced law for five years in Baton Rouge. His work has appeared in Oxford American, Epoch, The Southern Review, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere. Horack currently teaches at Stanford University, where he was also a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His novel, The Eden Hunter, is forthcoming from Counterpoint in Fall 2010.
This is a world we enter into fully, led as we are by atmospheric prose, compelling characters, an unsparing vision of the world as it is. We emerge from reading these stories, amazed by the places we've been and the things we've seen; surprised by the imagined blood on our hands, the butterflies on our shoulders, the fish swimming in unexpected waters. Welcome, Skip Horack, Louisiana storyteller of uncommon talent.
—The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
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