Thomas McConnell’s work has appeared in the Connecticut Review, the Cortland Review, Calabash, Yemassee, the Emrys Journal, the Charleston Post & Courier, and Writing Macao, among other publications, and won prizes in the Porter Fleming Awards for Fiction and Essay, the South Carolina Fiction Project, and the Hardagree Award for Fiction.
His collection of stories, A Picture Book of Hell and Other Landscapes, was published by Texas Tech University Press in 2005 and nominated for the PEN/Bingham Award and the John Gardner Award for Short Fiction.
Educated at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and at the University of Georgia, he is associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, where he also directs the honors program.
A Fulbright Scholar in the Czech Republic for 2005-2006, he completed a novel while lecturing on American literature and creative writing at Masaryk University.