Jared Hegwood is a

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nominated Mississippi author who studied with the Barthelme brothers at the Center for Writers at the

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. He won the Joan Johnson award for fiction in 2007 for his short story "Valero", and has written for the

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at the

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. He has published fiction alongside Barry Hannah in The Yalobusha Review. He was, along with John Wang,

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, and Karin Lewicki, an early contributor to Juked. He is an English professor at Augusta University.

Bibliography

Short fiction

*"Feral" in Manifest Review, November 2012 *"Intimacy" in Keyhole Magazine, Fall 2009 *"Tana" in The Inkling, September 2009. *"Lately" in Night Train, June 2009. *"Hugs" in Keyhole Magazine, May 2009. *"Like Fish" in elimae, May 2009 *"Night Sea" in elimae, June 2008. *"A Month of Sundays" in elimae, June 2008. *"Baltimorean Abstruse" in The Yalobusha Review, 2006 *"Our Trap" in The Adirondack Review, Spring 2006 *"A Line of Spiders" in elimae, June 2005 *"Rubicon" in Juked, March 2005 *"Adjustments" in The Adirondack Review, Fall 2004 *"The New Father" in Juked, Sept. 2004 *"Waiting Waiting Waiting" in Juked, June 2004 *"Failure to Communicate" 3711 Atlantic, Summer 2004 *"Fifteen Minutes" Dicey Brown, Spring 2004 *"Yardwork" in Juked, Feb. 2004 *"The Zombies" in Über, Winter 2003 *"Because We’re Not Watching the World When We Need To" Dicey Brown, Winter 2003 *"We Have All Misunderstood Billy the Kid" in Juked, Jan. 2003 *"The Art of Dinner Conversation" in Juked, Sept. 2003 *"Maladroit" in Eyeshot, Fall 2003 *"Christmas with Cobra Commander" in Juked, April 2003 *"If You See Buddha in the Lane" in Product 18, Spring 2003 *"The Martini" in Juked, Jul. 2002 *"Hustle," Short Fiction Winner in Outsider Ink, Summer 2001 *"Hemorrhage" in Juked, Jun. 2001 *"How Terry Got Pink" in Juked, Feb. 2001 *"Exhausted with Jesus" in Juked, Feb. 2001 *"Gemini" in Juked, Nov. 2000 *"Going the Distance" in Juked, Apr.2000 *"TV Guide" in EyeCaramba, Spring 2000 *"At Work" in Juked, December 2000 *"Meat Sticks" in Waysouth: a Journal of Southern Thought, Spring 1999 *"Scene at Ward’s" in WaySouth: a Journal of Southern Thought, Fall 1998

Nonfiction

*"In Need of Minor Catastrophe" in Public Scrutiny, Spring 2004 *"How Irresponsible of Me" in Juked, Nov. 2003 *"Why I’ve Been Gone" in Juked, Jan. 2003 *"Half an Hour in a Major Bookstore Chain" in Juked, June 2001 *"’Smashmouth’ and Other Words" in Juked, Feb. 2001 *"Requiem for a Magazine Publisher" in Juked, Sept. 2000

Awards and honors

*Winner, Joan Johnson Fiction Award 2007, "Velero" *Nomination,

2006, "Baltimorean Abstruse" *Honorable Mention, Garth A. Avant Fiction Award 2006 *Honorable Mention, Joan Johnson Fiction Award 2005 *Nomination, Pushcart Prize 2004, "Adjustments"

External links

Somewhere I Have Never Travelled: Dissertation"FNMOC, Naval Media Center Team Up for DTS Weather Forecasts"Official Website

References

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