The Radiance of Fossils

Pat Carr has a B.A. and M.A. from Rice University, a Ph.D. from Tulane and has taught literature and creative writing in universities across the South. She's published sixteen books, including The Women in the Mirror, winner of the Iowa Fiction Award, and The Death of a Confederate Colonel, winner of the John Estes Cooke Civil War Fiction Award and the PEN Southwest Fiction Award, and she's published over a hundred short stories in such places as The Southern Review and Best American Short Stories. Her novel, If We Must Die was a finalist in the PEN Book Awards and her latest book, a memoir, One Page at a Time: On a Writing Life, was a finalist for the Willa Cather Nonfiction Award. She currently lives and writes with her writer husband, Duane Carr, three dogs, a cat, and eight black chickens on a farm in Arkansas.