![]() ![]() A native of Birmingham, Alabama, and graduate of the University of Virginia, Covington holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he studied under John Cheever and Raymond Carver. His other books are Lasso the Moon (Delacorte), a young adult novel Cleaving (North Point), a joint memoir with novelist Vicki Covington and Redneck Riviera (Counterpoint), a nonfiction account of his attempt to claim the two and a half acres of worthless Florida scrubland he’d inherited from his father. ![]() His awards include the Delacorte Press Prize for a First Young Adult Novel, the Boston Book Review ’s Anne Rea Jewell Prize for Nonfiction, the National Theatre Conference’s Barrie Stavis Playwriting Award, and creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Vogue, Esquire, Redbook, Georgia Review, Oxford American, and many other periodicals, and has been widely anthologized and translated into eight languages. Dennis Covington is the author of five books, including the novel Lizard (Laurel Leaf) and the memoir Salvation on Sand Mountain (Perseus), a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award in nonfiction. ![]()
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