Squire Babcock

SQUIRE BABCOCK has taken a long and fascinating path to becoming a novelist. He grew up in an abusive Louisville home and was eventually arrested and jailed for possession of heroin. In the ensuing years he worked as a ballroom dance instructor, farm hand, weigh-man in a cotton gin, hunting guide, pool table repair mechanic, small business owner, carpenter, free-lance journalist and blues drummer. At the age of 30 he sold his Nashville pool table business and registered as a freshman English major at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. After graduating with his B.A., he taught English at a Massachusetts boarding school for three years before returning to UMass for his MFA. He is currently Associate Professor of English at Murray State University, where he has taught English and creative writing for 18 years and directed the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. When he is not writing or teaching, he raises his daughter, Hannah, and gardens and water-skis and hikes and rides his Harley in the beautiful lakes region of western Kentucky.