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SUMMARY:2026 IDEA Symposium - Issues of Substance: Addiction and Recovery
DESCRIPTION:Register for IDEA Symposium\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Symposium\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSubstance abuse—from alcohol to opioids to “hard drugs”—is an issue that affects all communities\, and Spalding County is no different. Too often\, the drug users themselves are identified as the community’s problem—to be punished\, hidden\, or driven out. However\, such responses do little to help. It is only by helping addicts that we can truly help communities. \n\n\n\nIn recognition of the prevalence and importance of this issue\, the theme of this year’s IDEA Symposium is Issues of Substance: Addiction and Recovery. At this professional learning conference presented by the University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts & Sciences\, attendees will hear from medical professionals\, social workers\, first responders\, veterans\, and other community members who have deep personal experience with the causes and impacts of substance abuse—and what all of us can do to help. \n\n\n\nThe IDEA Symposium\, which will be held on Friday\, April 10th\, 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM in the Student Learning Center on the UGA Griffin Campus\, is free and open to the public\, but registration for the symposium is REQUIRED. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\nTimeSessionTopicSpeaker(s)Location8:30–8:45 AMCheck-in / RegistrationStudent Learning Center (SLC) – Lobby8:45–9:00 AMWelcome & Opening RemarksMs. Faye Chatman\, Program Director\, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences at UGA – GriffinDr. Jeffery Dean\, Asst. Provost and Director of the UGA Griffin CampusDr. Anna Stenport\, Dean\, Franklin College of Arts & SciencesSLC Room 1049:00–9:20 AMJust the FactsMr. John Cruickshank\, Librarian\, UGA Griffin CampusSLC Room 1049:20–9:40 AMOut of Sight\, Out of MindHidden PopulationsMs. Hannah Owens\, AB in Interdisciplinary Studies – Sociology MajorSLC Room 104Hidden by COVIDMr. Anthony Descartes\, BS in Microbiology & BS in Psychology (Neuroscience Emphasis) MajorSLC Room 104Hidden DangersMr. Dave Boddie\, AB in Interdisciplinary Studies – Sociology MajorSLC Room 1049:40–10:10 AMBreak-out SessionRecovery is RealMs. Jennifer Hughes\, Burke Center Program Manager\, McIntosh Trail Community Service BoardSLC Room 105A Day in the ERDr. J’Lynn Lewis\, Emergency Medicine Resident\, Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical CenterMr. Hunter Stubbs\, NRP (Nationally Registered Paramedic)\, Upson Regional Medical Center\, and Deputy Coroner\, Upson CountySLC Room 11510:10–10:20 AMBreak10:20–10:50 AMBreak-out SessionRecovery is RealMs. Jennifer Hughes\, Burke Center Program Manager\, McIntosh Trail Community Service BoardSLC Room 105A Day in the ERDr. J’Lynn Lewis\, Emergency Medicine Resident\, Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical CenterMr. Hunter Stubbs\, NRP (Nationally Registered Paramedic)\, Upson Regional Medical Center\, and Deputy Coroner\, Upson CountySLC Room 11510:50–11:20 AMBreak-out SessionAfter the BattleMr. Alex George\, Sergeant First Class\, US Army (Ret)Staff Sergeant Jonathan Wolff\, US ArmySLC Room 105In the FieldMr. Mike Byrd\, Deputy Chief of Operations\, Spalding County Fire DepartmentMs. Septima Hutchinson\, Clinical Director\, youthSparkSLC Room 11511:20–11:30 AMBreak11:30–12:00 PMBreak-out SessionAfter the BattleMr. Alex George\, Sergeant First Class\, US Army (Ret)Staff Sergeant Jonathan Wolff\, US ArmySLC Room 105In the FieldMr. Mike Byrd\, Deputy Chief of Operations\, Spalding County Fire DepartmentMs. Septima Hutchinson\, LCSW\, Clinical Director\, youthSparkSLC Room 11512:00–12:05 PMBreak12:05–12:25 PMKeynoteCommunity Services Available to YouMs. Holly Murray\, City Commissioner\, District 3\, City of GriffinSLC Room 10412:25–12:50 PMClose to Home: Personal ExperiencesMs. Madeline Choate\, BS in Microbiology and BS in Psychology (Neuroscience Emphasis) MajorMs. Tori Page\, Master of Social Work Student\, School of Social Work\, University of GeorgiaMs. Haley Robocker\, AB in Interdisciplinary Studies – Psychology and BS in Psychology MajorSLC Room 10412:50–1:00 PMThe 27 ClubDr. Perry Buffington\, Principal Lecturer\, Dept. of PsychologySLC Room 1041:00–1:05 PMTill Next YearDr. Matthew Peach\, Lecturer\, Dept. of SociologyMs. Faye Chatman\, Program Director\, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences at UGA – GriffinSLC Room 104
URL:https://griffin.uga.edu/events/2026-idea-symposium-issues-of-substance-addiction-and-recovery/
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SUMMARY:Author Entertainment Series - Valerie Frey
DESCRIPTION:Register for Author Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeorgia’s Historical Recipes\n\n\n\nAn exploration of Georgia’s culinary heritage and how it connects us to our present tastes\, Georgia’s Historical Recipes is an exploration of our state’s oldest recipes from the antebellum period through World War II\, as painstakingly researched by Georgia archivist Valerie J. Frey. This volume begins with a discussion of old recipes as primary sources and what they can tell us about the history and culture of their era and how to bring them to life in modern kitchens. Frey then moves into fifty sections that can be read alone yet allow readers to build an understanding of how foodways evolved over time.Some sections highlight a single recipe\, illustrating how changes in technology\, agriculture\, transportation\, communication\, and social patterns led to changes in Georgia kitchens. Most of the recipes are previously unpublished\, waiting in archives to be rediscovered. Other sections explore our oldest cookbooks\, offering biographical and cultural background information that makes them more meaningful. For the first time\, Georgians have a list of the state’s early cookbooks and its cooking experts. Readers will learn where to find Georgia’s oldest recipes and discover many examples to whet their appetites literally and figuratively for a taste of Georgia’s past. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeet The Author\n\n\n\nValerie J. Frey is a writer and archivist.  Her projects focus on genealogy\, historical foodways\, folklife\, and the everyday home life of our ancestors.  Sapelo Island\, Georgia was Valerie’s first home\, and she considers Athens\, Georgia to be her hometown.  She spent many fine childhood hours there rooting through the library\, building tree forts\, and foraging for wild plums. \n\n\n\nDuring her early career\, Valerie earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in art education from the University of Georgia.  Her master’s thesis\, Folk Art in North Georgia:  A Model Curriculum\, wove together art\, local history\, and personal narratives.  Her thesis experiences and a love for her grandparents’ stories lured her into pursuing a master’s degree in information science from the University of Tennessee\, Knoxville where she concentrated on historical research and archives.  Her second thesis is entitled Personal Information Systems: Journals and Diaries as Process and Product.  After graduate school\, she served as a Junior Fellow in the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress and then became Manuscripts Archivist at the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah and Archivist of the Savannah Jewish Archives.  During that time\, she co-authored two books focusing on historic photographs and oral histories:  Images of America:  The Jewish Community of Savannah (Charleston:  Arcadia Press\, 2002) and Voices of Savannah (Savannah:  Savannah Jewish Archives\, 2004). \n\n\n\nIn 2003\, Valerie became Education Coordinator of the Georgia Archives where she spent her time developing public service programs as well as creating resources for educators and their students.  She won a grant from the Georgia Humanities Council to create Down Home Days\, an annual event to help kids develop a love of history.  In 2007\, marrying an Air Force officer took Valerie away from the South and she became a full-time writer as well as a consultant\, contract archivist\, temporary Californian\, and mother to one lovable boy.  After returning to Georgia\, Preserving Family Recipes:  How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions was released in 2015 through the University of Georgia Press.  In 2025\, UGA Press released her newest book\, Georgia’s Historical Recipes:  Seeking Our State’s Oldest Written Foodways and the Stories Behind Them.  During her research project\, Valerie rediscovered an 1885 cookbook from Marietta entitled House-Keeping in the Sunny South that was subsequently reprinted in 2025 by UGA Press with a foreword and indexing by Valerie.
URL:https://griffin.uga.edu/events/author-entertainment-series-valerie-frey/
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SUMMARY:Spring 2026 Graduation Celebration
DESCRIPTION:The University of Georgia Griffin Campus cordially invites you to attend the Spring 2026 Graduation Celebration and Brick Ceremony to be held on Wednesday\, May 6\, 2026\, at 10:00 a.m. on the Student Learning Center Lawn. \n\n\n\n\nGraduation Celebration Livestream
URL:https://griffin.uga.edu/events/spring-2026-graduation-celebration/
CATEGORIES:Academic Events
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SUMMARY:PreK-8th Math Education Virtual Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Sign up for Info Session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPreK-8th grade teachers\, join this virtual session to learn more about UGA’s MEd and EdS in Mathematics Education. Whether you already love teaching math or you’re seeking to improve your knowledge and skills to better support your students\, this may be the degree for you! \n\n\n\nThis program is housed on the UGA Griffin Campus and has a schedule designed to meet the needs our educators’ already busy schedules.
URL:https://griffin.uga.edu/events/prek-8th-math-education-virtual-info-session-3/
CATEGORIES:Academic Events
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SUMMARY:PreK-8th Math Education Virtual Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Sign up for Info Session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPreK-8th grade teachers\, join this virtual session to learn more about UGA’s MEd and EdS in Mathematics Education. Whether you already love teaching math or you’re seeking to improve your knowledge and skills to better support your students\, this may be the degree for you! \n\n\n\nThis program is housed on the UGA Griffin Campus and has a schedule designed to meet the needs our educators’ already busy schedules.
URL:https://griffin.uga.edu/events/prek-8th-math-education-virtual-info-session-4/
CATEGORIES:Academic Events
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SUMMARY:PreK-8th Math Education Virtual Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Sign up for Info Session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPreK-8th grade teachers\, join this virtual session to learn more about UGA’s MEd and EdS in Mathematics Education. Whether you already love teaching math or you’re seeking to improve your knowledge and skills to better support your students\, this may be the degree for you! \n\n\n\nThis program is housed on the UGA Griffin Campus and has a schedule designed to meet the needs our educators’ already busy schedules.
URL:https://griffin.uga.edu/events/prek-8th-math-education-virtual-info-session-5/
CATEGORIES:Academic Events
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SUMMARY:Author Entertainment Series - Thomas Aiello
DESCRIPTION:Register for Author Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReturn of the King: The Rebirth of Muhammad Ali and the Rise of Atlanta\n\n\n\nReturn of the King tells the story of Muhammad Ali’s return to the ring in 1970\, after a more than three-year suspension for refusing his draft notice as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. With Ali’s career still in doubt\, he found new support in shifting public opinion about the war and in Atlanta\, a city still governed by white supremacy\, but a white supremacy decidedly different from that of its neighbor cities in the Deep South. \n\n\n\nAtlanta had been courting and landing professional sports teams in football\, basketball\, and baseball since the end of 1968. An influential state politician\, Leroy Johnson\, Georgia’s first Black state senator since Reconstruction\, was determined to help Ali return after his exile. The state had no boxing commission to prevent Ali from fighting there\, so Johnson made it his mission for Ali to make a comeback in Georgia. Ali’s opponent would be Jerry Quarry\, the top heavyweight contender and\, more important\, a white man who had spoken out against Ali’s objection to the war. \n\n\n\nIn Return of the King\, Thomas Aiello examines the history of Muhammad Ali\, Leroy Johnson\, and the city of Atlanta\, while highlighting an important fight of Ali’s that changed the trajectory of his career. Although the fight between Ali and Quarry lasted only three rounds\, those nine minutes changed boxing forever and were crucial to both the growth of Atlanta and the rebirth of Ali’s boxing career. \n\n\n\nMeet The Author\n\n\n\nThomas Aiello is professor of anthrozoology\, history and African American studies at Valdosta State University. He has authored more than twenty books and dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles. His work helped amend the Louisiana Constitution to make non-unanimous juries illegal and was cited in the US Supreme Court as part of its decision ruling them unconstitutional. His most recent books are The Life and Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity (Duke University Press\, 2021)\, The Trouble in Room 519: Money\, Matricide\, and Marginal Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century (Louisiana State University\, 2021) and The Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath (Mississippi University Press\, 2021). He received his first PhD from the University of Arkansas in 2007 and his second from the University of Exeter in 2021. The bulk of his courses relate to all measures of African American history\, from early slavery to Black Power\, and all aspects of animal studies. His research interests are broader\, covering twentieth century United States cultural and intellectual history\, twentieth century African American cultural and intellectual history in a variety of different settings\, and animal studies\, critical animal studies\, and anthrozoology.
URL:https://griffin.uga.edu/events/author-entertainment-series-thomas-aiello/
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SUMMARY:Author Entertainment Series – Tayari Jones
DESCRIPTION:Register for Author Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn partnership with The Flint River Regional Library System\, the UGA Griffin Campus Author Entertainment Series is proud to welcome Author Tayari Jones\, as she presents her new book KIN — A Novel. \n\n\n\nA magnificent new novel from the bestselling\, award-winning author of An American Marriage\, Tayari Jones was just named a 2026 Oprah’s Book Club Selection! She has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy. \n\n\n\n\n“Kin is the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I’m always hoping to find: smart and funny and deftly profound. This is Tayari Jones’s very best work.” —Ann Patchett\, author of Tom Lake. \n\n\n\n\nOprah standing next to Tayari Jones holding her book named KIN\n\n\n\nMeet the Author\n\n\n\nTayari Jones is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and A.D. White Professor At Large at Cornell University. She is the best-selling author of An American Marriage\, which won the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction and was named both a 2026 and 2018 Oprah’s Book Club Selection. An American Marriage was an instant New York Times bestseller that allowed the Times to say that she “emerged as one of the most important voices of her generation” (Essence). Named one of TIME’s “10 Best Fiction Books of 2018\,” An American Marriage “illuminates the waves of injustice and heartbreak that unravel families entangled in a flawed judicial system.” The New York Times describes An American Marriage as “beautifully written” and “wise and compassionate.” An American Marriage was also awarded the Aspen Words Prize\, and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Fiction. It has been published in over 20 countries\, with over a million copies in print around the world. In this “moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple” (Barack Obama\, on selecting the novel for his summer reading list)\, Jones introduces us to Celestial and Roy\, a newlywed couple standing on the threshold of the American Dream. When Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit\, their lives implode. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“It’s among Tayari’s many gifts that she can touch us soul to soul with her words.” — Oprah Winfrey \n\n\n\n\nJones’ other novels include Leaving Atlanta\, The Untelling\, and Silver Sparrow. Jones’ writing has appeared in Tin House\, The Believer\, The New York Times\, McSweeney’s and Callaloo. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers\, she has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\, Lifetime Achievement Award in Fine Arts from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation\, United States Artist Fellowship\, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship. Tayari Jones is a graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta\, the University of Iowa\, and Arizona State University. In her talks at campuses\, libraries\, and literary festivals across the country\, Jones speaks on her many books\, her life and career\, and the South.
URL:https://griffin.uga.edu/events/author-entertainment-series-tayari-jones/
CATEGORIES:Author Entertainment Series,Conferences & Other Events
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SUMMARY:Author Entertainment Series - Judkin Browning
DESCRIPTION:Register for Author Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeserter Declarations\n\n\n\nDeserter Declarations are firsthand accounts of North Carolinian Confederate deserters and their motivations for deserting. It explores nearly two hundred letters from Confederate deserters to Governor Zebulon B. Vance from 1861 to 1865. It shares the voices of deserters or friends and family petitioning on their behalf. Browning helps us understand who deserters were and lets us tease out some of the factors that motivated soldiers to leave their posts. These letters add vivid specificity to the often-contentious debates over deserters in the Confederacy and shed light on the changing attitudes of deserters over the course of the war. North Carolina is an excellent case study for desertion\, as the state had the highest number of deserters. The Old North State also represents a microcosm of the entire South’s geography and demography. \n\n\n\nMeet The Author\n\n\n\nJudkin Browning is a professor of military history at Appalachian State University and the author or coauthor of five books on the Civil War\, including An Environmental History of the Civil War\, which he coauthored with Timothy Silver. In addition to being awarded major research grants and winning several teaching and research awards\, Browning also maintains the digital humanities website\, www.TarheelTroops.org\, which provides several databases\, letters\, and blog posts about North Carolina soldiers during the Civil War. He lives and writes in North Carolina. \n\n\n\nDr. Browning received a BA in History at Florida State University in 1996\, an MA in Public History at North Carolina State University in 1999\, and a Ph.D. at the University of Georgia in 2006. \n\n\n\nHe is the administrator of https://www.tarheeltroops.org/\, a Digital Humanities website he developed\, which provides several databases\, letters\, and blog posts about North Carolina soldiers during the Civil War\, all derived from the various projects on which he is working. \n\n\n\nHe has written Letters from a North Carolina Unionist\, co-edited with Michael Thomas Smith (2001)\, an edited collection of letters from a Unionist official living in occupied Beaufort\, North Carolina; The Southern Mind under Union Rule (2009)\, an edited diary of a secessionist living under that Union military occupation in Beaufort; and Shifting Loyalties (2011)\, which examines the effects of Union military occupation on the local whites\, African Americans\, Union soldiers\, and northern benevolent societies that experienced or participated in the occupation of eastern North Carolina. He has also written a history of The Seven Days’ Battles (2012)\, reassessing that campaign and the reasons for its ultimate outcome. He most recently co-authored (with Tim Silver) An Environmental History of the Civil War (2020)\, examining the Civil War as a biological event. In the U.S. Civil War class\, his lecture on “The Peninsula Campaign and the Seven Days Battles” was filmed by C-Span on February 28\, 2017.
URL:https://griffin.uga.edu/events/author-entertainment-series-judkin-browning/
CATEGORIES:Author Entertainment Series,Conferences & Other Events
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SUMMARY:Author Entertainment Series - Perry Buffington
DESCRIPTION:Register for Author Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristmas With The Wise Men\n\n\n\n“Fun” is Dr. Buffington’s middle name. Interesting\, relatable\, engaging\, insightful and entertaining are all adjectives that describe this author. From academic works to his latest book\, Christmas With The Wise Men\, Dr. Buffington truly covers the gambit.  In this sequel to Christmas in Angel Land\, the ‘little professor’ is at it again!  After his trip to Angel Land last Christmas\, where he found a way to fix an angel’s broken wings\, Carson somehow\, someway\, managed to find himself travelling back in time with “Three Wise Men.” But before this new adventure\, he reunited with his friends (including his nemesis\, Wanda) and made it through the 3rd Grade Nativity Pageant. It looked like it would be a quiet\, uneventful Christmas until his Angel Land pals called the Little Professor into action. Now\, Carson played a surprising role at the very first Nativity. As the Wise Men followed the star and moved closer to the Nativity on that very\, very first Christmas Day\, one catastrophic event\, a surprising twist of fate\, and an unexpected mystery made it another Christmas to remember. It’s a story of five gifts to the Christ Child. Four questions answered. Three Wise Men redeemed. Two miracles manifested. And one mystery solved. \n\n\n\nMeet The Author\n\n\n\nDr. Perry Buffington is a prolific writer and author of 16 books\, from academic works to a series of smart/fun books entitled “Cheap Psychological Tricks. He was the first featured guest expert on CNN’s “Parenting Today” and a popular guest on radio and television\, hosting a show “ParentWise” that aired daily in more than 75 cities. He also hosted “The Dr. Buff Show\,” which was heard on WGST AM and FM in Atlanta. He has also written for the Saturday Evening Post\, The New York Times\, USA Today\, Success\, New Woman\, Delta Airlines’ Sky Magazine and wrote a fascinating anecdotal history of Atlanta. Known affectionally by his students as “Dr. Buff\,” he is a licensed psychologist with over 20 years of private-practice experience and is a UGA Griffin professor in the UGA Psychology Department.  The Psychology Department recognized Dr. Buff as the recipient of the Psi Chi Undergraduate Teaching Award\, the department’s main undergraduate teaching award. He is native Georgian with B.A. from Georgia Southern\, M.A. from UGA and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Kentucky.
URL:https://griffin.uga.edu/events/author-entertainment-series-perry-buffington/
CATEGORIES:Author Entertainment Series,Conferences & Other Events
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SUMMARY:Author Entertainment Series - Robert Gwaltney
DESCRIPTION:Register for Author Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSing Down the Moon\n\n\n\nSixteen-year-old Leontyne Skye longs to escape Good Hope\, a barrier island off the coast of Georgia—and the cursed birthright that binds her to it. For generations\, the women of the Skye line have tended Damascus\, an ancient fig tree whose siren song lures the dead across the river. The figs it bears are harvested to create Redemption\, a drug that tethers the island to the dead\, slowly consuming the Skye women from the inside out. \n\n\n\nLeontyne’s mother\, Eulalee\, is already disappearing—memory\, hair\, teeth—into the salt-stung air. And Leontyne is unraveling too\, since the accident known as Tribulation Day\, when she lost her hand and all sense of who she was before. As her memories resurface in fractured pieces\, and her childhood friends\, Rebecca and Avery\, twist truth to their own ends\, Leontyne faces a cruel inheritance aiming to destroy her. \n\n\n\nWhen Journey Wintergarden arrives\, mysterious and magnetic\, precarious relationships unravel\, threatening to upend everything\, derailing Leontyne’s plans to escape Good Hope. As desire\, betrayal\, and memory collide\, the haints grow restless. Leontyne’s refusal to tend the tree means shattering the fragile balance between the living and the dead. Accepting her fate means becoming the Great Redeemer—and losing herself completely. \n\n\n\n\n“Robert Gwaltney’s sophomore follow-up to The Cicada Tree is Southern Gothic at its finest.  With beautiful prose and an artist’s eye\, his descriptions immerse the reader in the beauty and fairy-tale magic of coastal Georgia.  Characters who are wounded both physically and emotionally populate this story of family legacy and the price of betrayal. This is the perfect read for fans of Southern fiction and magical realism and for those who enjoy savoring every word.”  \n\n\n\n– Karen White\, New York Times bestselling author of That Last Carolina Summer \n\n\n\n\nMeet the Author\n\n\n\nRobert Gwaltney\, a recipient of the 2022 Pat Conroy Writers Residency\, was named 2023 Georgia Author of the Year for his debut novel\, The Cicada Tree. He resides in Atlanta Georgia where he is an active member of the Atlanta literary community serving as a board member for Broadleaf Writers Association. Robert’s work has appeared in such publications as Southbound Magazine\, Southern Literary Review\, The Blue Mountain Review\, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. His forthcoming novel\, Sing Down The Moon\, which has been awarded the Somerset Award for Literary and Contemporary Fiction\, will be published by Mercer University Press in the Spring of 2026. \n\n\n\n\n“There is so much to admire in Robert Gwaltney’s new novel—how it is both intensely Southern yet also reminiscent of the magical realism of writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez; its appealing heroine caught between the demands of her community (both the living and the dead) and the desires of her own heart; its delightful blend of colloquial and lyric language—all of which make Sing Down the Moon a remarkable achievement.” \n\n\n\n—Ron Rash\, New York Times bestselling author of Serena and The Caretaker
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