Shane Wilson writes stories that blend the line between fantasy and reality. He lives in the space that exists between the real and the mystical. His first novel, A Year Since the Rain<\/i> was released in 2016, and his follow-up novel, The Smoke in His Eyes<\/i>, is forthcoming from GenZ Publishing.<\/p>\n
Born in Alabama and raised in Georgia, Shane is a child of the southeastern United States where he feels simultaneously at-home and out-of-place. He graduated from Valdosta State University in south Georgia with a Masters in English. He taught college English in Georgia for four years before moving to North Carolina in 2013.<\/p>\n
No matter the temperature outside, there is always an iced coffee in his hand when he walks into class in the mornings. He tends to chase the day with a whiskey and a re-run of\u00a0The Office<\/i><\/span>.<\/p>\n Shane\u2019s. Shane is also the winner of the 2017 Rilla Askew Short Fiction Prize. He has been\u00a0published in\u00a0Conclave<\/i><\/span>,\u00a0Tethered by Letters<\/i>, and the\u00a0Stonepile Writers’ Anthology, Volume III<\/i><\/span>.<\/i>\u00a0He is currently at work on a new novel.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shane Wilson writes stories that blend the line between fantasy and reality. He lives in the space that exists between the real and the mystical. His […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":2944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[186,185,184],"yoast_head":"\n