Serena (Rash)

Author Bio 
• Birth—1953
• Where—Chester Springs, South Carolina, USA
• Reared—Boiling Springs, North Carolina, USA
• Education— B.A., Gardner-Webb College; M.A., Clemson   
   University
• Awards—O'Henry Prize; National Endowment for the Arts  
   Poetry Fellowship; Sherwood Anderson Prize
• Currently—lives in North Carolina

Ron Rash is the author of three prize-winning novels — One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight — thee collections of poems and two collections of stories. A recipient of the O. Henry Prize, he holds the John Parris Chair in Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University. (From the publisher.)