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Ron Rash grew up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, in the heart of the southern Appalachian mountains his family has occupied since the 1700s. It stands to reason that this region and its people occupy his writing.
To date Rash is the author of three collections of poetry: Eureka Mill, Among the Believers [review], and Raising the Dead [review].
Rash is also the author of three short story collections and a children's book. His first novel, One Foot in Eden, was published in 2002.
In 1987 his fiction won a General Electric Younger Writers Award and in 1994 he was awarded an NEA Poetry Fellowship. He was the 2002 winner of the Novello Literary Award.
His poems have been published in the Yale Review, Georgia Review, Oxford American, New England Review, Southern Review, Shenandoah and DoubleTake.
Rash currently holds the Parris chair in Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University.
