nashville-based

writer, editor,
english professor

What’s Happening now: Summer, 2023

  • Poetry / Paris

    On June 27, 2022, I returned to the literary home where I earned my MFA in Writing: Spalding University, in Louisville, Kentucky. At The Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing, I enrolled in the Post-Master’s Certificate in Writing Enrichment program. Studies included a ten-day summer residency in Paris, France. I wrapped up my studies and earned the certificate in March, 2023.

  • fiction / the e-postle

    l started the first draft of the first chapter of my novel, the e-postle, in 2000. Based upon those words, The Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing admitted me into its MFA in Writing program. Two decades later, I returned to the story during the Covid lockdown—rewriting the manuscript and preparing for a literary agent search.


roy l. burkhead, II, MFA

distinctions, publishing history, Teaching, & scholarly activity

distinctions & publishing history

From prize nominations and judging fiction contents to seeing my work in anthologies: I’ve been darn lucky over the years.

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scholarly activity & teaching

Teaching college freshman English literature; hosting author events at the Southern Festival of Books; Giving lectures to writing groups…

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