Dale Neal

Dale Neal is a novelist, teacher and journalist, living in Asheville. He is the author of Kings of Coweetsee, a contemporary Appalachian saga exploring the changes in a rural county when a ballot box from a stolen election suddenly reappears. His historical novel The Woman with the Stone Knife is told by a Cherokee woman exiled for 20 years in Georgian England.

His novella, Floodmarks, about the 1916 flood in Asheville, is forthcoming from Regal House.

His previous novels include Appalachian Book of the Dead, a Southern Buddhist thriller that was a finalist for the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award. His short stories and essays have appeared in Our State, Smoky Mountain Living, North Carolina Literary Review, Carolina Quarterly and elsewhere. He earned an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. As an award-winning reporter for the Asheville Citizen-Times for three decades, he traveled everywhere from Upper Paw Paw in Madison County to Karachi in Pakistan, covering culture, books, religion, business, science and technology at the Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative at Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Asheville campus. He teaches novel writing at the Great Smokies Writers Program at UNC-Asheville.