UNA Writers' Series Presents, John T. Edge

The UNA Writers' Series invites everyone to attend a reading and conversation with John T. Edge. Edge will read from House of Smoke, his new memoir. After the reading, there will be time for a conversation and book signing.

John T. Edge Bio:

John T Edge, author of the memoir, House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home, writes and hosts the National Emmy Award-winning television show TrueSouth, now in its ninth season. He has written or edited more than a dozen books including The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the American South. Edge is a widely published magazine and newspaper writer. He currently writes a restaurant column for the magazine Garden & Gun.

Awarded an honorary doctorate by Centenary College, winner of the nonfiction prize from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, and twice winner of the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, Edge is a fellow in the Georgia Writer’s Hall of Fame.

In 1998, he founded the Southern Foodways Symposium at the University of Mississippi. From 1999 through 2021, Edge directed the Southern Foodways Alliance. At the University of Mississippi, he now leads development of Greenfield Farm Writers Residency and serves as Writer-in-Residence for the Department of Writing and Rhetoric. Edge lives in Oxford with his wife, the artist Blair Hobbs.

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