{"id":14678,"date":"2026-03-16T09:33:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/?page_id=14678"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:34:02","slug":"skip-horack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/skip-horack\/","title":{"rendered":"Skip Horack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Skip Horack is author of the story collection The Southern Cross<\/em>, winner of the Bread Loaf Writers\u2019 Conference Bakeless Fiction Prize; and the novel The Eden Hunter<\/em>, a New York Times Book Review<\/em> Editors\u2019 Choice. His second novel, The Other Joseph,<\/em> was published in 2015, and his work has appeared in Oxford American, <\/em>the Saturday Evening Post, Narrative Magazine, <\/em>the New England Review,<\/em> and elsewhere. Horack is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and currently directs the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A native of Covington, Louisiana, who once shook Walker Percy\u2019s hand, Horack and his writing were a subject of Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers: New Voices, New Perspectives,<\/em> published by the University Press of Mississippi. He with lives with his family, and a birddog, in Tallahassee, Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regal House Publishing is proud to bring you Skip Horack’s Angelfish<\/em> in 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Skip Horack is author of the story collection The Southern Cross, winner of the Bread Loaf Writers\u2019 Conference Bakeless Fiction Prize; and the novel The Eden Hunter, a New York Times Book Review Editors\u2019 Choice. His second novel, The Other Joseph, was published in 2015, and his work has appeared in Oxford American, the Saturday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-14678","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9DpGh-3OK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9419,"url":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/carol-lahines\/","url_meta":{"origin":14678,"position":0},"title":"Carol LaHines","author":"Jaynie","date":"May 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"For Carol LaHines, the most affecting stories are those that are leavened with a sardonic sensibility.\u00a0 Italo Calvino, one of her favorite writers, notes \u201cth[e] particular connection between melancholy and humor,\u201d speaking of how great writing \u201cforegrounds [with] tiny, luminous traces that counterpoint the dark catastrophe.\u201d\u00a0 She\u2019s always veered toward\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/author-photo-4.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/author-photo-4.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/author-photo-4.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/author-photo-4.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/author-photo-4.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14571,"url":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/jennifer-steil\/","url_meta":{"origin":14678,"position":1},"title":"Jennifer Steil","author":"Jaynie","date":"January 27, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Photograph \u00a9 Beowulf Sheehan Jennifer Steil is\u00a0a British-American writer living in France\u00a0with her husband and teenage daughter after many years in Yemen,\u00a0Bolivia, England, and Uzbekistan. 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