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Ron Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestsellers Serena and Above the Waterfall. He has penned four prize-winning novels: The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; four collections of poems; and six collections of stories, including Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Burning Bright won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Rash has twice been the recipient of the O. Henry Prize. He teaches at Western Carolina University.
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Awards
| Year | Award |
|---|---|
| 1987 | General Electric Younger Writers Award |
| 1996 | The Sherwood Anderson Prize |
| 2002 | Novello Literary Award (One Foot in Eden) |
| 2002 | ForeWord Magazine's Gold Medal in Literary Fiction |
| 2002 | Appalachian Book of the Year |
| 2004 | Fiction Book of the Year by the Southern Book Critics Circle |
| 2004 | Fiction Book of the Year by the Southeastern Booksellers Association |
| 2004 | Weatherford Award for Best Novel of 2004 |
| 2005 | James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers |
| 2005 | O. Henry Prize for "Speckled Trout" |
| 2008 | Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Chemistry and Other Stories |
| 2009 | Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Serena |
| 2010 | Heasley Prize at Lyon College |
| 2010 | Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for Burning Bright |
| 2010 | Inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors |
| 2011 | Southern Independent Booksellers Association (SIBA Book) Award for Burning Bright |
| 2012 | David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction for The Cove |
