A public Q&A with local author Donald Pollock is Wed., Nov. 6, at 3:05-4:25pm in Walter 235.
Donald Pollock
Pollock is the author of Knockemstiff and The Devil All The Time. His talk is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences.
Pollock was born in 1954 and grew up in southern Ohio, in a holler named Knockemstiff. He dropped out of high school at 17 to work in a meatpacking plant and then spent 32 years employed in a paper mill in Chillicothe.
He graduated with an English B.A. from Ohio State University in 1994. He returned to OSU in 2005 at the urging of Michelle Herman, one of the editors of OSU English Department’s literary magazine, The Journal, after she read Bactine, which became one of the short stories in his first book Knockemstiff. He graduated from the M.F.A. program at Ohio State University in 2009, and he still lives in Chillicothe with his wife, Patsy.
Knockemstiff won the 2009 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship. His first novel, The Devil All the Time, published in 2011, was listed by Publisher’s Weekly as one of the top ten books of the year. He was awarded a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship.
His work has appeared in The New York Times, Third Coast, The Journal, Sou’wester, Chiron Review, River Styx, Boulevard, Folio, Granta, NYTBR, Washington Square, and The Berkeley Fiction Review.
For more: http://donaldraypollock.com/
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