Raymond L. Atkins resides in Rome, Georgia, where he is an adjunct instructor of English at Georgia Highlands College. He has had a variety of occupations during the past 35 years, but now that the children are grown, he is pursuing his lifelong ambition of being a novelist and writer.
His short stories have been published in Christmas Stories from Georgia, Christmas Through a Child's Eyes, The Lavender Mountain Anthology, The Blood and Fire Review, The Old Red Kimono, Long Island Woman, The Red Clay Review, and Savannah Magazine.
His humorous columns appear regularly in The Rome News-Tribune, Like the Dew, The Baby Boomer News, and Memphis Downtowner Magazine.
His first novel, The Front Porch Prophet, was published by Medallion Press in June of 2008 and is available at your favorite bookseller. Raymond was awarded the Georgia Author of the Year Award for First Novel as well as the Independent Book Publishers Awards Gold Medal for Best Regional Fiction, Southeast, for this novel.
His second novel, Sorrow Wood, was published to critical acclaim by Medallion Press in June of 2009 and is available at your favorite bookseller.
His third novel, Camp Redemption, is scheduled for release in 2012. He is currently writing his fourth novel, Sweetwater Blues.
Raymond L. Atkins: Novelist, Writer, Speaker
