Daren Dean is the author of the novel Far Beyond the Pale. His debut short story collection, I'll Still Be Here Long After You're Gone was released in 2019. His novel, The Black Harvest, is forthcoming at the University of West Alabama's Livingston Press. His story Bring Your Sorrow Over Here was selected as Runner-up by Judge George Singleton in Yemassee's William Richey Short Fiction contest. Another story, Affliction was a Finalist in the Glimmer Train Short Fiction Contest for New Writers in 2012. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Louisiana Literature, BULL (Men's Fiction), Maryland Literary Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Ecotone, Image, Midwestern Gothic, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Red Dirt Forum, Yemassee, Delta Poetry Review, The Oklahoma Review, Ploughshares, The Huffington Post, Bloom, and others. He has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in fiction. In the past, he worked in scholarly publishing at the University of Missouri Press and, more recently, he taught in the English department at LSU in Baton Rouge. Currently, he's an Assistant Professor of English at Lincoln University of Missouri.
