Seth Clabough

Seth Clabough moved to Costa Rica to write the second half of All Things Await. He went to the places he wrote about--including the D&N and the brothels in San Jose--and most of the characters in the novel have their roots in people he met along the way. He surfed,explored, was robbed and went totally deaf from surfer's ear and spent two days in CIMA hospital. He loved every moment of it.

Seth's work appears in a number of places including Blackbird, Barely South, Magma Poetry, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Litro Magazine, New Writing, Women’s Studies, the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, the Atlantic (rpt), Aesthetica Magazine, alongside Pulitzer Prize-winner Anothony Doerr (Hearing Voices -Kingston University Press) and in numerous other journals and magazines.

Ploughshares has selected his work for their national "Best Short Story of the Week" column; other work has been editor-nominated for the Luminaire Award for Best Prose, story South's "Million Writer Award," Best of the Net 2016, and the Queen's Ferry Press Award.

He directs the Communication Center at Randolph-Macon College and is fond of beaches and the sound leaves make in the mountains when no one is there. All Things Await is his debut novel.