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Casey Clabough
Featured Author Issue 6.1 Spring 2014
Casey Clabough is the author of the novel Confederado, the travel memoir The Warrior's Path: Reflections Along an Ancient Route, and five scholarly books on southern and Appalachian writers, including Inhabiting Contemporary Southern & Appalachian Literature: Region & Place in the 21st Century. Clabough serves as editor of the literature section of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities' Encyclopedia Virginia and as general editor of the literary journal James Dickey Review.
His work has appeared in over seventy anthologies and magazines, including Creative
Nonfiction, the Sewanee Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Clabough’s awards
include the 2013 Bangladesh International Literary Award, an artist's fellowship
from the Brazilian Government, and several U.S.-
"I know of no other book exactly like The Warrior's Path, yet it is part of a tradition.
One thinks of the best work of John McPhee, Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard. The writing
is at once eloquent, elegant, and evocative. In short, it is a beautifully written
work: a genuine pleasure to read, and to re-
–George Garrett
“Casey Clabough’s unique vision, his curious and important quest, his personable and earnest manner of expression draw us into his world just that engagingly. His world is our world, too, the trace our ancestors followed into the wilderness to transform a landscape into a nation. History, memoir, travel journal, meditation—The Warrior’s Path is all these things at once, its firm understanding of the past made lyric with lively language. This is a volume to keep close at hand when doubts about our American destiny begin to assail. Solid, durable, and—entrancing.”
–Fred Chappell
“Clabough's work account draws us deep into an intimacy with our geography and culture, with all the triumphs, failures, and contradictions we are heir to.”
–Robert Morgan
"Confederado is a thrilling mixture of fact and fiction by an exciting new voice in Southern fiction."
–Ron Rash
"Clabough's Inhabiting Contemporary Southern and Appalachian Literature resists inhabiting
traditional regional tropes to turn critical and artistic eyes on a delightful range
of fascinating and even surprising authors of fiction and poetry. Not only does this
ambidextrous book model a 'New Regionalism' for the twenty-
–Tara Powell
Links:
Author’s site: http://caseyclabough.webs.com/
Feature in the Oxford American: http://www.oxfordamerican.org/tags/articles/casey-
http://www2.newsadvance.com/lifestyles/2012/aug/20/story-
http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/article_dbaaf556-
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v12n1/nonfiction/turner_d/confederado_page.shtml
http://shenandoahliterary.org/621/confederado-
| Louis Gallo |
| R.T. Smith |
| Doug Ramspeck |
| Scott Hutchison |
| Mark Vogel |
| Richard Nester |
| Tim Poland |
| Casey Clabough |
| Chelsea Adams |
| Donald Secreast |
| Luke Armstrong |
| Rob Neukirch |
| Elliot Dabinsky |