Writer's Notes is a series that invites writers to detail their projects at any stage in their process. Debut author James Tate Hill explores his West Virginia roots and how place has influenced his past writing as well as his current novel.
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James Tate Hill
James Tate Hill is the author of Academy Gothic, winner of the 2014 Nilsen Prize for a First Novel, which will be published in 2015. A graduate of the writing programs at Hollins University and UNC Greensboro, his fiction has appeared in Story Quarterly, Sonora Review, The South Carolina Review, The Texas Review, and elsewhere. He has been a finalist for the Hudson Prize and the St. Lawrence Book Award. He serves as Reviews Editor for Monkeybicycle. Find him on Twitter @JamesTateHill.