 Roy Hoffman
Roy Hoffman is the author of the novelsAlmost Family (winner of the Lillian SmithBook Award for enhancing racialawareness) and Chicken Dreaming Corn,and the nonfiction collection Back Home:Journeys through Mobile. A native ofMobile, he worked in New York City fortwenty years as a journalist, speechwriter,and teacher before returning to Mobile as astaff writer at the Press- Register.Hoffman's reviews and essays haveappeared in the New York Times, Fortune,Southern Living, and other publications. Helives in Fairhope and regularly travels toLouisville, Kentucky, where he teaches inthe brief-residency MFA in WritingProgram at Spalding University. |
 John Sledge
John Sledge is the Books Editor ofthe Press-R egister and author of thebooks Cities of Silence: A Guide toMobile's Historic Cemeteries andAn Ornament to the City: Old MobileIronwork He is an architecturalhistorian with the Mobile HistoricalDevelopment Commission and wasthe moderator for the firstStoryteller in the House (2004). |
