Robert Morgan, author of the award-winning novel GAP CREEK, is a native of the North Carolina mountains. He was raised on land settled by his Welsh ancestors. He is an accomplished poet, novelist, and short story writer and has won the James B. Hanes Poetry Prize, the North Carolina Award in Literature, and the Jacaranda Review Fiction Prize. His short stories have appeared in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and New Stories from the South. GAP CREEK won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and his earlier novel THE TRUEST PLEASURE was a finalist for the same award.