Derek Updegraff is the author of two short story collections and three poetry collections. Whole is his first novel. His short stories, poems, translations, and essays have appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, the minnesota review, Notre Dame Review, The Southampton Review, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and other places. Originally from San Diego, California, he lives with his family in upstate South Carolina, where he is an Associate Professor of English at Anderson University.
