Dana Chamblee Carpenter's debut novel, BOHEMIAN GOSPEL, won Killer Nashville's 2014 Claymore Award and has been praised as "A grand, thought-provoking adventure in sorrow, joy and magic," by J. T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author of What Lies Behind. Mark Richard, author of The Ice at the Bottom of the World says, "Like a rushing river, BOHEMIAN GOSPEL, flows bright, dappled with a patina of legend, and has a current that runs deep and wonderfully dark. The reader will be swept along in this bold debut." Carpenter's award-winning short fiction is also featured in Killer Nashville Noir: Cold Blooded and has appeared in The Arkansas Review, Jersey Devil Press, and Maypop. An Arkansas native, Carpenter received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Mississippi. Though initially lured by the pragmatic academic world, Carpenter secretly nurtured her dream of writing stories, and, once the dust had settled on the dissertation, she gave herself over to what she'd known since she was a child--she was meant to be a storyteller.She currently teaches creative writing and American Literature at a university in Nashville, TN, where she lives with her husband and two children, who are desperately trying to turn the house into a model of Luna Lovegood's eccentric home with glass beads and bells and little figures nestled into every nook and cranny. Hopefully there aren't any exploding dragon horns.