Philip F. Deaver is the thirteenth winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. He is the author of the short story collection Silent Retreats. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and Bread Loaf. His fiction has appeared in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and has been recognized in Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. His poems are collected in a volume entitled How Men Pray. Deaver is associate professor of English and permanent writer-in-residence at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida.
Fiction
Summer 2006
Lowell and the Rolling Thunder
Long before the fire, back when things were going fairly right, Lowell Wagner found himself out in the Douglas County countryside on a car ride with Wally and Carol Brown. […]