
Ron Rash
Author · 23 books
Ron Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Finalist and New York Times bestselling novel, Serena, in addition to three other prizewinning novels, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; three collections of poems; and four collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Twice the recipient of the O.Henry Prize, he teaches at Western Carolina University.
Books

Saints at the River
2004

Among the Believers
2000

Chemistry and Other Stories
2007

Casualties
2000

Waking
2011

Conversations with Ron Rash
2017

Something Rich and Strange
Selected Stories
2014

The World Made Straight
2006

Nothing Gold Can Stay
Stories
2013

Eureka Mill
1998

Degrees of Elevation
Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia
2010

The Caretaker
2023

One Foot in Eden
2002

Raising the Dead
2002

Above the Waterfall
2014

Serena
2008

My Father Like a River
2013

Burning Bright
2010

The Risen
2016

In the Valley
Stories and a Novella Based on SERENA
2020

The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth
And Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina
1994

The Ron Rash Reader
2014

The Cove
2012