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'{{Short description|American poet (born 1953)}} {{advert|date=September 2017}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = Ron Rash | image = {{#Property:P18}} | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|09|25}} | birth_place = [[Chester, South Carolina]], U.S. | occupation = Novelist Previously an English Instructor at Tri-County Technical College | education = {{ubl|Bachelor of Arts|Masters of Arts}} | alma_mater = [[Gardner-Webb University]], [[Clemson University]] | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = {{ubl|''[[Serena (novel)|Serena]]'',|''[[Burning Bright (short story collection)|Burning Bright]]'',|''[[The Cove (novel)|The Cove]]'',|''[[Nothing Gold Can Stay (short story collection)|Nothing Gold Can Stay]]''}} | awards = {{awd|[[Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award]]|2010}} | spouse = Ann Rash | children = 1 daughter, 1 son | influences = | signature = | website = {{url|https://ronrashwriter.com}} }} '''Ron Rash *nigger*''' (born September 25, 1953), is an American poet, short story writer and novelist, is the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at [[Western Carolina University]].<ref> {{cite press release | publisher = Literary Agency Marly Rusoff & Associates, Inc. | date = March 11, 2008 | title = SERENA by Ron Rash | url = http://www.rusoffagency.com/authors/rash_r/serenat/serena.htm }}</ref> ==Early life== Rash was born on September 25, 1953, in [[Chester, South Carolina]] and grew up in [[Boiling Springs, North Carolina]].<ref name=southernscrib/> He is a graduate of [[Gardner-Webb University]] and [[Clemson University]] from which he holds a B.A. and M.A. in English, respectively.<ref name=southernscrib>{{cite web|last1=Kingsbury|first1=Pam|title=Language Can Be Magical: An Interview with Ron Rash|url=http://www.southernscribe.com/zine/authors/Rash_Ron.htm|website=Southern Scribe|publisher=Pam Kingsbury|access-date=26 September 2017|date=2004}}</ref> ==Career== Rash's poems and stories have appeared in more than 100 magazines and journals. ''Serena'' received enthusiastic reviews across and beyond the United States and was a 2009 [[PEN/Faulkner Award]] Finalist. Rash has achieved acclaim as a short story author,<ref> {{citation | publisher = The Independent (UK) | date = August 21, 2011 | title = ''Review of ''Burning Bright'''' | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/burning-bright-by-ron-rash-2341115.html }}</ref> winning the Frank O'Connor Award in 2010 for ''Burning Bright.'' <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/sep/20/frank-o-connor-award-ron-rash|title=Frank O'Connor award goes to Ron Rash|last=Flood|first=Alison|date=2010-09-20|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-09-29|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Recent work such as ''The Outlaws'' (''[[Oxford American]]'', Summer, 2013) focused on ordinary lives in southern Appalachia. Jim Coby examined Rash's use of mystery thriller tropes in ''One Foot in Eden.''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Coby |first1=Jim |title='I ain't going to the jailhouse if I can help it': The Thriller Impulse in Ron Rash's ''One Foot in Eden'' |journal=Clues: A Journal of Detection |date=2019 |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=19–29}}</ref> While Rash's work certainly fits within the “Appalachian Noir” genre, a critic for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has asserted that “Rash belongs to the loftier realm of literary fiction.” <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/ron-rash-revisits-serena-with-gripping-new-novella/JJCU74ZDCBAPBN7BTNLLL7HVEM/|title=Ron Rash revisits 'Serena' with gripping new novella|last=Van Atten|first=Suzanne|date=2020-09-09|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=2020-09-10}}</ref> Ron Rash holds the John and Dorothy Parris Professorship in Appalachian Cultural Studies at [[Western Carolina University]], where he teaches poetry and fiction in the Department of English. ==List of works== ===Poetry=== * ''Eureka Mill'' (1998)<ref> {{cite book | last=Rash | first=Ron | title= Eureka Mill | year= 1998 | publisher= Bench Press | location= Columbia, SC | isbn= 0-930769-14-7}}</ref><ref> {{cite book | last=Rash | first=Ron | title= Eureka Mill | url=http://www.hubcity.org/bk_eureka.htm | type= Paperback | date=September 2001 | publisher= Hub City Writers Project | location= Spartanburg, SC | isbn= 1-891885-20-0 | page= 64 pp}}</ref> ** interweaves his family's personal migration from [[Buncombe County]], NC farms with the broader portrait of mill life outside [[Chester, South Carolina]] * ''Among the Believers'' (2000)<ref> {{cite book | last=Rash | first=Ron | title= Among the Believers | type= Paperback | year= 2000 | publisher= Iris Press | location= Oak Ridge, TN | isbn= 0-916078-50-7 }}</ref> * ''Raising the Dead'' (2002)<ref> {{cite book | last=Rash | first=Ron | title= Raising the Dead | type= Paperback | year= 2002 | publisher= Iris Press | location= Oak Ridge, TN | isbn= 0-916078-54-X }}</ref> ** Deals with loss and displacement as a result of the flooding of Jocassee Valley, S.C. * ''Waking'' (2011)<ref> {{cite book | last= Rash | first= Ron | title= Waking | type= Hardback | year= 2011 | publisher= Hub City Press | location= Spartanburg, SC | isbn= 978-1-891885-82-2 }}</ref> ===Short story collections=== * ''The Night The New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina'' (1994)<ref> {{cite book | last=Rash | first=Ron | title= The Night The New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina | year= 1994 | publisher= Bench Press | location= Columbia, SC | isbn= 0-930769-11-2}}</ref> *''Casualties'' (2000)<ref> {{cite book | last=Rash | first=Ron | title= Casualties | year= 2000 | publisher= Bench Press | location= Beaufort, SC | isbn= 0-930769-14-7}}</ref> * ''Chemistry and Other Stories'' (2007)<ref> {{cite book | last=Rash | first=Ron | title= Chemistry and Other Stories | year= 2007 | publisher= Picador | location= New York, NY | isbn= 978-0-312-42508-1}}</ref> ** Thirteen short stories, eight of which were previously published in ''Casualties'' ("Chemistry," "Last Rite," "Not Waving But Drowning," "Overtime," "Cold Harbor", "Honesty", "Dangerous Love," "The Projectionist's Wife,"). Also includes the O. Henry Prize Winner "Speckled Trout" as well as "Pemberton's Bride," a story that gives a taste of Rash's forthcoming novel. * ''Burning Bright'' (2010) * ''Nothing Gold Can Stay'' (2013) * ''Something Rich and Strange'' (2014) *''In the Valley'' (2020)<ref>{{Cite book|title=In the Valley|last=Rash|first=Ron|publisher=Doubleday|year=2020}}</ref> ** ''Stories and a novella based on Serena'' ===Novels=== * ''One Foot in Eden'' (2002)<ref> {{cite book | last=Rash | first=Ron | title= One Foot in Eden | type= Hardcover | year= 2002| publisher= Novello Festival Press | location= Charlotte, NC |isbn= 0-9708972-5-1 | pages= 240 pp}}</ref><ref> {{cite book | last= Rash | first= Ron | title= One Foot in Eden | type= Trade paperback | year= 2004 | publisher= Picador | location= New York | isbn= 0-312-42305-5 | pages= [https://archive.org/details/onefootinedennov00rash/page/240 240 pp.] | url= https://archive.org/details/onefootinedennov00rash/page/240 }}</ref> ** Fleshes out the characters and themes of ''Raising the Dead''. It tells the story of a community displaced disguised as a murder mystery and imbued with Rash's poetic language. * ''[[Saints at the River]]'' (2004)<ref> {{cite book | last= Rash | first= Ron | title= Saints at the River | type= Hardcover | edition= 1st | year= 2004 | publisher= Henry Holt | location= New York | isbn= 0-8050-7487-2 | pages= [https://archive.org/details/saintsatriver00rash/page/288 288 pp.] | url= https://archive.org/details/saintsatriver00rash/page/288 }}</ref><ref> {{cite book | last=Rash | first=Ron | title= Saints at the River | type= Trade paperback | year= 2005| publisher= Picador | location= New York |isbn= 0-312-42491-4 | pages= 256 pp}}</ref> ** About a South Carolina community torn over the issue of environmentalism. * ''[[The World Made Straight]]'' (2006)<ref> {{cite book | last= Rash | first= Ron | title= The World Made Straight | type= Hardcover | edition= 1st | date= April 2006 | publisher= Henry Holt | location= New York | isbn= 0-8050-7866-5 | pages= [https://archive.org/details/worldmadestraigh00rash/page/304 304 pp.] | url= https://archive.org/details/worldmadestraigh00rash/page/304 }}</ref> ** Both a coming-of-age story set in the 1970s Appalachia and a meditation on the role of the past in the present, in this case a Civil War massacre that has divided [[Madison County, North Carolina]]. ever since. ** Adapted to a feature film, directed by [[David Burris]], released in 2015. * ''[[Serena (novel)|Serena]]'' (2008)<ref> {{cite book | last= Rash | first= Ron | title= Serena | type= Hardcover | edition= 1st | date= October 2008 | publisher= Ecco Press | location= New York | isbn= 978-0-06-147085-1 | pages= [https://archive.org/details/serenanovel00rash/page/371 371 pp.] | url= https://archive.org/details/serenanovel00rash/page/371 }}</ref> ** The ambitious wife of a North Carolina timber baron, Serena, brings the spirit of Lady MacBeth to depression-era North Carolina. ** Adapted to a feature film, directed by [[Susanne Bier]] and starring [[Jennifer Lawrence]] and [[Bradley Cooper]], released in 2014. * ''[[The Cove (novel)|The Cove]]'' (2012) ** A family is afflicted with a series of grave misfortunes. Their lives, particularly Laurel's, are interrupted at the arrival of a mute stranger who has been found after suffering a severe number of wasp stings. * ''Above the Waterfall'' (2015) ** Set in contemporary Appalachia, about lives shaped by violence and a powerful connection to the land. *''The Risen'' (2016)<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Risen|last=Rash|first=Ron|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2016}}</ref> ===Children's book=== *''The Shark's Tooth'' (2001) ===Magazine publications=== *''The Woman at the Pond'' (''[[The Southern Review]]'', Vol. 46.4, 2010) *''The Outlaws'' (''[[Oxford American]]'', Summer, 2013) ==Awards== * 1987: General Electric Younger Writers Award <ref>{{Cite web |first=Garrett |last=Woodward |title=In search of the perfect word |url=https://smokymountainnews.com/archives/item/14573-in-search-of-the-perfect-word |work=Smoky Mountain News |year=2014 |access-date=29 November 2021}}</ref> * 1996: The Sherwood Anderson Prize * 2002: Novello Literary Award (''One Foot in Eden'') * 2002: ''ForeWord Magazine'''s Gold Medal in Literary Fiction (''One Foot in Eden'') * 2002: Appalachian Book of the Year (''One Foot in Eden'') * 2004: Fiction Book of the Year by the Southern Book Critics Circle (''Saints at the River'') <ref name="Ron Rash Bio">{{cite web | title=Ron Rash Bio | work=National Endowment of the Arts | url=https://www.arts.gov/impact/literary-arts/creative-writing-fellows/ron-rash | access-date=2021-11-29}}</ref> * 2004: Fiction Book of the Year by the Southeastern Booksellers Association (''Saints at the River'') <ref name="Ron Rash Bio"/> * 2004: Weatherford Award for Best Novel of 2004 (''Saints at the River'') <ref> {{cite web | title=Past Weatherford Award Winners | work=Berea College | url=https://www.berea.edu/appalachian-center/awards/weatherford-award/past-weatherford-award-winners/ | access-date=2021-11-29}}</ref> * 2005: James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers <ref> {{cite web | title=FSW James Still Award | work=Fellowship of Southern Writers | url=https://www.fellowshipofsouthernwriters.org/james-still-award | access-date=2021-11-29}}</ref> * The Short story "Speckled Trout" was included in the 2005 O. Henry Prize Stories.<ref> {{cite web | title=Past Winners List | work=The O. Henry Prize Stories | url=http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/winners/past.html | access-date=2006-05-02 }}</ref> This story formed the basis for the first chapter of ''The World Made Straight''.<ref> {{cite web | title=Author Spotlight: Ron Rash | work=The O. Henry Prize Stories | url=http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/spotlight/rash.html | access-date=2006-05-02}} </ref> * 2008: Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (''Chemistry and Other Stories'') <ref> {{cite web | title=Past Award Winners & Finalists | work=Pen/Faulkner | url=https://www.penfaulkner.org/2011/08/01/past_award_winners/ | access-date=2021-11-29}}</ref> * 2009: Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (''Serena'') <ref>{{cite web | title=Past Winners List | work=PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | url=http://www.penfaulkner.org/award-for-fiction/past-award-winners-finalists/ | access-date=2014-03-19}}</ref> * 2010: [[The Best American Short Stories 2010]] for "The Ascent" <ref> {{cite web | title=Table of Contents: The Best American Short Stories 2010 | work=Schlow Center Region Library | url=https://search.schlowlibrary.org/Record/311855/TOC | access-date=2021-11-29}} </ref> * 2010: Heasley Prize at [[Lyon College]] * 2010: [[Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award]] (''Burning Bright'') <ref>{{Cite web |first=Alison |last=Flood |title=Frank O'Connor award goes to Ron Rash |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/sep/20/frank-o-connor-award-ron-rash |work=The Guardian |year=2010 |access-date=29 November 2021}}</ref> * 2010: Inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.scacademyofauthors.org/inductees.html|title=Inductees|website=South Carolina Academy of Authors|language=en|access-date=2017-09-29}}</ref> * 2011: [[SIBA Book Award]] (Fiction) for ''Burning Bright'' <ref>{{Cite web |first=Dana |last=Bailey |title=2011 SIBA Book Award Winners |url=https://roanoke.com/entertainment/2011-siba-book-award-winners/article_2a74036b-96f4-5ed9-abf3-8feeb8334918.html |work=The Roanoke Times |year=2011 |access-date=29 November 2021}}</ref> * 2012: [[David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction]] for ''The Cove'' <ref>{{cite web |title = Past Winners List |work = David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction |url = http://www.langumtrust.org/pastwin.html |access-date = 2014-03-19 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120630015353/http://www.langumtrust.org/pastwin.html |archive-date = 2012-06-30 }}</ref> * 2018: [[The Best American Short Stories 2018]] (Fiction) for "The Baptism" <ref> {{cite book | title=Ron Rash's "The Baptism" | isbn=9780544582880 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BjtuDwAAQBAJ&dq=ron+rash+the+baptism+best+american+short+stories+2018&pg=PA242 | access-date=2021-11-29| last1=Gay | first1=Roxane | last2=Pitlor | first2=Heidi | date=2 October 2018 }} </ref> ===New York Times Bestseller list=== *''Serena'' was listed as #34 for Hardcover Fiction in the November 2, 2008 issue of The New York Times Book Review.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2008/11/02/hardcover-fiction/|title=Hardcover Fiction Books - Best Sellers - November 2, 2008 - The New York Times|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-09-29|language=en|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> *''The Cove'' was listed as #16 for Hardcover Fiction in the April 29, 2012 issue of The New York Times Book Review and remained on the list as #29, #22, and #31 for the three subsequent weeks.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2012/04/29/hardcover-fiction/|title=Hardcover Fiction Books - Best Sellers - April 29, 2012 - The New York Times|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-09-29|language=en|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> *''Nothing Gold Can Stay'' was listed as #28 for Hardcover Fiction in the March 10, 2013 issue of The New York Times Book Review.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2013/03/10/hardcover-fiction/|title=Hardcover Fiction Books - Best Sellers - March 10, 2013 - The New York Times|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-09-29|language=en|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [https://www.ronrashwriter.com Ron Rash's website] * [https://archives.library.sc.edu/repositories/5/resources/968 Ron Rash archive] at the University of South Carolina Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. * [http://southernspaces.org/2007/saints-river-and-selected-poems Saints at the River and Selected Poems] * [http://www.harpercollins.com/cr-103756/ron-rash Ron Rash Harper Collins Author Page] * [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/591653/in-the-valley-by-ron-rash/ Penguin Random House] {{Ron Rash |state=expanded}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rash, Ron}} [[Category:1953 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:21st-century American novelists]] [[Category:American male novelists]] [[Category:Appalachian studies]] [[Category:Novelists from South Carolina]] [[Category:American male short story writers]] [[Category:21st-century American poets]] [[Category:American male poets]] [[Category:People from Chester, South Carolina]] [[Category:People from Boiling Springs, North Carolina]] [[Category:Gardner–Webb University alumni]] [[Category:Clemson University alumni]] [[Category:Novelists from North Carolina]] [[Category:20th-century American poets]] [[Category:Poets from South Carolina]] [[Category:20th-century American short story writers]] [[Category:21st-century American short story writers]] [[Category:PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners]] [[Category:20th-century American male writers]] [[Category:21st-century American male writers]]'