About Tommy Hays

Tommy Hays’s latest novel, The Pleasure Was Mine (St. Martin’s Press), was chosen for the One City, One Book program in Greensboro, North Carolina and for the Amazing Read—Greenville, SC’s first community read. Read on NPR’s “Radio Reader”, it was a Finalist for the SIBA 2006 Fiction Award. His other novels are Sam’s Crossing (Atheneum) and In the Family Way (Random House), winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. He is Executive Director of the Great Smokies Writing Program and Lecturer in the Master of Liberal Arts Program at the University of North Carolina Asheville. He also teaches in the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program at Murray State University.

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