David Huddle’s forthcoming book, The Faulkes Chronicle, will be published by Tupelo Press in September 2013. His numerous other books include Black Snake at the Family Reunion (Louisiana State University Press, 2012), Nothing Can Make Me Do This (Tupelo Press, 2011), and The Story of a Million Years (Houghton Mifflin, 1999), which was named a Distinguished Book of the Year by Esquire and a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Huddle’s work has appeared in Blackbird, The American Scholar, Esquire, The New Yorker, Shenandoah, AGNI, and The Georgia Review. He taught for thirty-eight years at the University of Vermont, and then served as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University from 2009–2012.  He holds the 2012–2013 Roy Acuff Chair of Excellence in the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University and continues to teach at the Bread Loaf School of English and the Rainier Writing Workshop.  

Photo by Bess Malson-Huddle