Novel · 12 September 2026 · East Nashville Press
Where the Heathen Rage
“The baby was still alive when Hollis Koker found her stuffed inside a hollow log on the side of Little Black Mountain, screaming into the dark.”
A fierce Southern novel about inheritance and redemption, the wages of faith and the cost of love, and the fragile, stubborn hope that survives when nearly everything else has been taken.
Stories · Available now
Hope Is a Hard Thing
“Kitchens after everyone has gone to bed. Empty train platforms. Cheap motels off the interstate.”
Quiet, intimate stories about the lives we build, the things we carry, and the moments that change us when no one is watching.
Novel · Available now
Cottonwood
“In a small Texas town where cotton fields stretch farther than mercy, a boy watches the world he knows begin to crack.”
A raw, deeply human novel about race, memory, and the slow, painful birth of conscience, told in a voice steeped in the heat, dust and moral weight of the American South. Winner of a Benjamin Franklin Award for Best First Book.
Illustrated, for children · Written and illustrated by hand
The Mockingbird Son
“A mockingbird singing on a branch, and a girl in a wide hat listening.”
An illustrated children's book, written and drawn by the author himself.
Not currently in print. Copies turn up secondhand.
Free, and yours to keep
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