Spencer K. M. Brown is the recipient of the Penelope Niven Award, the Flying South Prize, and finalist for the Thomas Wolfe Prize and Doris Betts Award. His fiction and poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and have appeared in Parhelion, Prime Number, Scalawag, and elsewhere. He is the author of the novels Move Over Mountain, and Hold Fast (forthcoming Fall 2022 Wiseblood Books). He lives in North Carolina with his wife and son.