Dale Neal

Dale Neal is the author of Appalachian Book of the Dead, shortlisted for the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award; Cow Across America, winner of the Novello Literary Award; The Half-Life of Home; and Kings of Coweetsee, to be published in summer 2024 by Regal House. His short stories, reviews and essays have appeared in Our State, Smoky Mountain Living, Still, North Carolina Literary Review, Appalachian Journal, Carolina Quarterly and elsewhere. He worked for four decades as an award-winning journalist at the Asheville Citizen-Times. He earned an MFA in creative writing at Warren Wilson College.