minerville
A fading coal town about to lose its last mine.
A miner raised to bury his emotions.
An act of violence that will demand the hardest work of his life – forgiveness.
a debut novel forthcoming from Regal House Publishing in 2028
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Larry was born and raised in Appalachia. He is the first of four generations of coal miners not to mine coal in the mountains of southwest Virginia. After spending 24 years as a daily newspaper reporter in five states, he now works as Deputy Communications Director for Oregon Health Authority. He has an English degree from Virginia Tech and an MFA in fiction writing from Warren Wilson College.
Excerpts from his first novel, Minerville, won the Jean Ritchie Fellowship in Appalachian Writing and an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship. He has two adult sons and lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and dogs and a kitten named Earl.
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photo credit: Jack Corn, U.S. National Archive