Gurney Norman is a novelist and short story writer whose works include Divine Right\'s Trip, Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories, Ancient Creek: A Folktale , and Allegiance.
He is coeditor of Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes, and An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature..
Norman has received many honors for his work and is a widely known Appalachian literary and cultural advocate.
A native of eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia, he was the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University.
He is a professor of English at the University of Kentucky and a former Kentucky Poet Laureate.
Gurney Norman is a novelist and short story writer whose works include Divine Right\'s Trip, Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories, Ancient Creek: A Folktale , and Allegiance
