Tommy Hays
Tommy Hays’ latest novel, The Pleasure Was Mine, was chosen for the Amazing Read – Greenville, SC’s first community-wide reading of a single book. It has also been chosen for Greensboro, NC’s One City, One Book read, which will take place this fall. The Pleasure Was Mine was read on National Public Radio’s “Radio Reader” hosted by Dick Estell and South Carolina ETV-Radio’s “Southern Read” hosted by Walter Edgar. It was also a Finalist for the SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) 2006 Fiction Award. Tommy has written two other novels -- Sam’s Crossing and In the Family Way, a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. He is Executive Director of the Great Smokies Writing Program and a Lecturer in the Master of Liberal Arts Program at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, he received his BA in English from Furman University and graduated from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He lives in Asheville with his wife Connie and his two children Max and Ruth.