Tommy Hays' ( www.tommyhays.com ) latest novel is The Pleasure Was Mine, which was published in March by St. Martin's Press. He has written two other novels— Sam's Crossing and In the Family Way, a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. Hays is Executive Director of the Great Smokies Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and Director of Creative Writing for the Academy at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities. He is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle and is a contributor to Our State magazine. Hays received his BA in English from Furman University and his MFA in Creative Writing from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He lives in Asheville, NC with his wife and two children.
