Michael K. Brantley
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Michael K. Brantley

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Michael K. Brantley is a North Carolina-based writer. His new book, "Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate," was released May 1, 2020. It is about the Civil War in North Carolina, from the University of Nebraska Press/Potomac Books. It was recently nominated for the Sam Ragan Old North State Nonfiction Award. His first book, Memory Cards: Portraits from a Rural Journey, was released in 2015 by Black Rose Writing. It reached #1 in Nonfiction and #1 in Memoir, as well as #1 in Top 100 Kindle Free in October 2016. Michael worked as freelance writer with 35 years experience, having written for national, regional and state publications covering music, sports, farming and business and was an award-winning professional photographer. His award-winning humor column has run for 23 years. He he has an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University in Charlotte, NC, an MA in English from East Carolina University, and a BS in Communications from Barton College. PPA has awarded him the Master of Photographer Degree, Craftsman. In 2019, Michael received an Archie K. Davis Fellowship to begin work on a third book. His creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry has most recently been published or is forthcoming in The First Day, The Dunes Review, Wordriver, Bartleby Snopes, Revolution House, Short, Fast, and Deadly, The Cobalt Review and Prime Number Magazine. Michael is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Barton College. He lives with his wife and three children in eastern North Carolina, down a rural road, on a plot that used to be part of his family's farm. You can get the latest news at: www.michaelkbrantley.com What other writers are saying: “Michael Brantley has the eyes of a camera and the soul of a poet. His memoir “Memory Cards” is a gentle and memory-jogging visit to a time and a place just down the road that is fading all too quickly. Along the way, he’ll make you smile, nod, try to swallow that lump in your throat and say more than once “Damn, I wish I’d written that.” Savor this book. Share it. It is that good.” -Dennis Rogers, columnist and author of Second Harvest, It’s Bad When the Bartender Cries “Michael Brantley is that rare thing these days, a writer with a true vocation. He's a born storyteller, and there's just no resisting his beguiling Southern voice. His prose is clear, fluid, and utterly unpretentious. It has an oddly hypnotic effect; a few sentences and I was under, living Brantley's rural North Carolina childhood as if it were my own.” -Emily Fox Gordon, Guggenheim Fellow and author of Book of Days, Mockingbird Years
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