Bad Creek - Smith, Kenneth P

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Biographie:
I am a native South Carolinian, born and reared in Greenville. I attended public schools and received my undergraduate degree in psychology from Clemson University. I also hold graduate degrees from Clemson and the University of South Carolina-School of Medicine. After working for Greenville County Schools for several years, I entered private practice and currently practice psychotherapy in Greenville. I am married and have two children, a daughter, and a son. I have been writing in one form or another since adolescence. Up until 2014, my work included primarily poems, short stories, and plays. Prior to 2017, poetry is the only work I had ever submitted for publication. Subsequently, a few poems were published in small, obscure poetry journals (likely all now defunct). In 2017, I self-published (working with Bookmasters, Inc.) a full-length novel, None but the Living. The book was well-received locally and received very good reviews. Bad Creek is my second novel. It was recently chosen as one of five finalists in the highly competitive 2018 Novel Competition sponsored by the South Carolina Arts Commission I am currently working on a third novel which is loosely based on the last racially-motivated lynching in South Carolina, which occurred in 1947. When not working or writing, I enjoy reading and hiking in the mountains of South Carolina.