Sonny Brewer

Sonny Brewer is the author of The Poet of Tolstoy Park, published by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, and the newly released novel, A Sound Like Thunder also from Ballantine. He is editor of the acclaimed annual anthology series Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe: Anthology of Southern Writing, and is the series editor of The Alumni Grille anthology, each installment featuring a guest editor.

He founded Over the Transom Bookstore in Fairhope, Alabama, and its annual literary conference, Southern Writers Reading. He is also board chairman and founder of the non-profit Fairhope Center for Writing Arts.

Brewer wrote and self-published three books: Rembrandt the Rocker, an illustrated parable on aging that poses as a children's book; A Yin for Change, a book of "dime-store" philosophy; and a ghost-written biography of Clarence Darrow. He is the former editor-in-chief of Mobile, Alabama's city magazine, Mobile Bay Monthly. He also published and edited The Eastern Shore Quarterly magazine and edited Red Bluff Review. He was a reporter on his college newspaper and co-edited The Southern Bard literary magazine at the University of South Alabama.

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