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Robert Gwaltney

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in Heerlen, Netherlands

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Fiction, Southern Fiction, Magical Realism

Influences

Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Ron Rash, Pat Conroy

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Robert Gwaltney, award winning author of southern fiction, is a graduate of Florida State University. He resides in Atlanta Georgia with his partner, where he is an active member of the Atlanta literary community. By day, he serves as Vice President of Easter Seals North Georgia, Inc., Children Services, a non-profit supporting children with disabilities and other special needs. Robert’s work has appeared in such publications as The Signal Mountain Review and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Robert also serves as Prose Editor for The Blue Mountain Review. His debut novel, The Cicada Tree, won the Somerset Award for literary fiction.

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“Wonder why the Lord doesn’t do something about it?” “About what?” “Men and the mess they done made.”
― Robert Gwaltney, The Cicada Tree

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“Because the sweet Lord above has to be a woman to put up with all the mess men folk done made down here on this here earth.”
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“Emotion is universal. Love, hate, and jealousy. They are all the same in any language.”
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