Jack Riggs

Jack Riggs

                  
Jack Riggs was raised in Lexington, North Carolina, where he grew up on Honey Monk barbecue and ACC Basketball. After a ten-year career in Hollywood where he worked as an Assistant Director and story analyst, he returned to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro to earn a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, studying under the tutelage of Fred Chappell.

His stories have appeared in The Chattahoochee Review, The Crescent Review, The Habersham Review, and Writing, Making It Real. In 2000, he was selected as an “Emerging New Southern Voice” at the Millennial Gathering of the Writers of the New South at Vanderbilt University.

Jack’s work has been a finalist in the Glimmer Train Fiction Contest and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His first novel, When the Finch Rises was awarded Best Southern Fiction in 2003 by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Top 10 first novel of 2003 by the American Library Association. He was awarded Georgia Author of the Year for First Novel in 2003.

He is the writer in residence within the Writers Institute at Georgia Perimeter College where he teaches creative writing and helps in overseeing various Institute programs that promote the written word within the college and the outside community.

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