Charles Alcorn

Charles Alcorn has lived in and written about Texas his entire life. A former all-state linebacker, Alcorn founded Splendid Seed Tobacco Company, was a sportswriter, and worked as a packaged goods copywriter before receiving his PhD in English Literature/Creative Writing (Fiction) from the University of Houston. Alcorn is the author of the short-story collection Argument Against the Good-Looking Corpse (Texas Review Press, 2011). Beneath the Sands of Monahans (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023) is his debut novel. Alcorn currently lives in Edinburg, Texas on the US-Mexico border.

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