Mark Beaver is author of Suburban Gospel, a memoir about growing up in the 1980s Bible Belt. His prose has appeared in North American Review, Crazyhorse, River Teeth, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of UNC-Greensboro’s MFA program, and lives with his wife and daughters in Atlanta.
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