Kelly DeLong is originally from Center Valley, Pennsylvania, and currently lives in Duluth, Georgia. He teaches English at Clark Atlanta University. His short stories and essays have appeared in The Sun, Evansville Review, Jabberwock Review, Roanoke Review, and Palo Alto Review, among others. He has won the Willow Review Fiction Award, the Agnes Scott Fiction Award, and the Georgia State University Fiction Award. He has also been a finalist for the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, the Sol Books Prose Contest and the St. Lawrence Book Award.
Kelly DeLong's novel "The Poor Sucker" is an authentic, well-wrought, heart-wise rendition of what it is to grow up, survive love, and find one's place in the world. In Eddie's wishes and desires, readers will catch glimpses of their own dreams, and his frustrations and anxieties will have readers nodding in empathetic recognition. --Tom Noyes, author of Behold Faith and Spooky Action at a Distance
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