John Slayton

My debut novel, Running to Graceland, won the Independent Book Publishers gold medal in popular fiction in 2019. I have published fiction in Close to the Bone, Flash Fiction Magazine, Vermont Magazine and a young adult short story anthology published by Simon and Schuster, Soul Searching (2002). I have an MFA in creative writing from Florida International University. I am currently a book reviewer for the New York Journal of Books and teach fiction writing at the Carrollwood Cultural Center in Tampa, Florida.