JAMES STILL AWARD FOR WRITING ABOUT THE APPALACHIAN SOUTH
Michael Croley, 2020 Recipient

Michael Croley is the author of Any Other Place: Stories. He has won several awards from Kentucky Arts Council, the Key West Literary Seminar and the Sewanee Writers Conference. His debut novel, Any Other Places: Stories, appearing in the Narrative, Catapult, Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. He has written many essays. He was born in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, in Corbin, Kentucky. Croley graduated from Florida State and the University of Memphis writing programs. He now teaches English and Narrative Journalism at Denison University.
PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS:
Terry Roberts, 2017
Jesse Graves, 2015
Wayne Caldwell, 2013
Jeff Daniel Marion, 2011
Michael McFee, 2009
Pamela Duncan, 2007
Ron Rash, 2005
Silas House, 2003
George Scarborough, 2001
Charles Frazier, 1999
James Still, 1997