| Fiction writer and scholar Thomas McConnell enjoys
researching multicultural literature, visual arts, and the novel. He has
published short stories and essays in various journals and magazines including Charleston Post & Courier,
Connecticut Review, Yemassee, Orb Literary Magazine,
The Sewanee Purple, and The Humanist.
In 2005, Texas Tech University Press published his collection of stories, A Picture Book of Hell and Other Landscapes,
which was nominated for the PEN/Bingham Fellowship and John Gardner Award for
Fiction. McConnell's work also appears in the Hub City
book, In Morgan's Shadow (2001). |
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McConnell holds a MA and a Ph.D. in
English from the University
of Georgia. He has been
invited to participate in numerous regional and international conferences
including the 12th International BookWorld Fair in Prague (2006). He is a two-time winner of the
South Carolina Fiction Project (2002, 2006); a former Fulbright Scholar and
Lecturer in American Literature and Creative Writing; and in 2000, he was
awarded the Hub City Hardegree Prize in Short Fiction. His recent short story about Albert Einstein can be found in the Hub City publication, Stars Fell on Spartanburg (2008).
McConnell
has taught English, literature, and creative writing courses at the University of Georgia,
the University of New Orleans, and Masaryk
University in the Czech Republic.
Currently, he teaches as an Associate Professor of English and creative writing
at the University
of South Carolina Upstate,
where he also serves as Director of the Honors Program and Coordinator of the
Nationally Competitive Scholarship Program. McConnell is also working on a
novel, Come to Ruin.
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