The Killing Hills - Chris Offutt

CHRIS OFFUTT is the author of novels Country Dark and The Good Brother , the short-story collections Kentucky Straight and Out of the Woods , and three memoirs: The Same River Twice , No Heroes , and My Father, the Pornographer . His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays , among many other places. He has written screenplays for Weeds , True Blood , and Treme , and has received fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim foundations. He lives in rural Lafayette County near Oxford, Mississippi.