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Carroll Dale Short

Carroll Dale Short, a native of Shanghi, Alabama, is a novelist and journalist now living in Birmingham. He has worked as a teacher, newspaper editor, advertising photographer, magazine writer, layout designer, television producer, radio DJ, and corporate communications consultant. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, American Lawyer, the Birmingham News, Roanoke Review, and other periodicals. His short story “The Mine at Saragossa” was recipient of the first Redbook Fiction Prize, and his plays have been produced by university theatre groups and broadcast on National Public Radio.

Books by Carroll Dale Short

Turbo’s Very Life and Other Stories (2005)

The Shining, Shining Path (2002)

A Writer’s Tool Kit (2001)

The People’s Lawyer (2000; revised edition 2005)

A Migration of Clowns: Poems and Essays (2000)

I Left My Heart in Shanghi, Alabama (1998)