Fiction. In MOSTLY REDNECK, Rusty Barnes expounds on his upbringing in disadvantaged rural northern Appalachia to deliver a mastery of country idiom and setting. In one minimalist story after another, he gives perspective and breadth to the widely misunderstood world of a people who still hunt for food, occasionally join their neighbors for church, and sometimes enjoy it when their city kin step in cow shit.

Author City: REVERE, MA USA

Rusty Barnes grew up in rural northern Appalachia. He received his BA from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania and his MFA from Emerson College. His fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in over 150 journals and anthologies. After editing fiction for the Beacon Street Review (now Redivider) and Zoetrope All-Story Extra, he co-founded Night Train, a literary journal that has been featured in the Boston Globe, the New York Times, and on National Public Radio. Sunnyoutside Press published a collection of his flash fiction, Breaking It Down, in November 2007. MiPOesias published his poetry chapbook Redneck Poems in October 2010.

Reviews and Other Links
author blog
Hazel Foster @ NewPages
Publishers Weekly
C. Wallace Walker @ Prick of the Spindle
Nicolle Elizabeth @ The Brooklyn Rail
William Trent Pancoast
Brian Seemann @ WORD/SOUND.
interview by Barry Graham @ Dogzplot News