About George
George Hovis is a native of Gaston County, North Carolina. His debut novel, THE SKIN ARTIST (SFK Press, 2019), was nominated for the 2019 Sir Walter Raleigh Award and was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award in Fiction. His short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has been honored as a 2018 prize winner in THE CAROLINA QUARTERLY's national contest "Wake and Dream Again," selected by Daniel Wallace. His nonfiction received the 2007 Denny C. Plattner Award from APPALACHIAN HERITAGE magazine. His stories, essays, and poetry have appeared widely, in anthologies and in journals such as SOUTHERN CULTURES, THE NORTH CAROLINA LITERARY REVIEW, THE MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY, THE FOURTH RIVER, STONE CANOE, THE SOUTHERN LITERARY JOURNAL, THE THOMAS WOLFE REVIEW, NEW MADRID, and THE CAROLINA QUARTERLY. His book of literary scholarship VALE OF HUMILITY: PLAIN FOLK IN CONTEMPORARY NORTH CAROLINA FICTION was published in 2007 by University of South Carolina Press.
George Hovis is a native of Gaston County, North Carolina. His debut novel, THE SKIN ARTIST (SFK Press, 2019), was nominated for the 2019 Sir Walter Raleigh Award and was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award in Fiction. His short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has been honored as a 2018 prize winner in THE CAROLINA QUARTERLY's national contest "Wake and Dream Again," selected by Daniel Wallace. His nonfiction received the 2007 Denny C. Plattner Award from APPALACHIAN HERITAGE magazine. His stories, essays, and poetry have appeared widely, in anthologies and in journals such as SOUTHERN CULTURES, THE NORTH CAROLINA LITERARY REVIEW, THE MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY, THE FOURTH RIVER, STONE CANOE, THE SOUTHERN LITERARY JOURNAL, THE THOMAS WOLFE REVIEW, NEW MADRID, and THE CAROLINA QUARTERLY. His book of literary scholarship VALE OF HUMILITY: PLAIN FOLK IN CONTEMPORARY NORTH CAROLINA FICTION was published in 2007 by University of South Carolina Press.
George has served as President of the Thomas Wolfe Society, has received a PhD in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Appalachian Writers' Workshop. He has given fiction craft lectures and led workshops in a variety of settings, including the North Carolina Writers Network, the Amelia Island Book Festival, Charlotte Center for the Literary Arts, and MFA programs in creative writing at UNC Wilmington and Murray State University. He currently lives with his wife and their two children in Upstate New York, where he is a professor of English at SUNY Oneonta and recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
George has served as President of the Thomas Wolfe Society, has received a PhD in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Appalachian Writers' Workshop. He has given fiction craft lectures and led workshops in a variety of settings, including the North Carolina Writers Network, the Amelia Island Book Festival, Charlotte Center for the Literary Arts, and MFA programs in creative writing at UNC Wilmington and Murray State University. He currently lives with his wife and their two children in Upstate New York, where he is a professor of English at SUNY Oneonta and recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.