Starkey Flythe’s fiction has been anthologized in the Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South, and the O. Henry Prize volumes.  His story “The Bird House,” was a co-winner of the fiction prize this year from Washington and Lee University’s 60th anniversary issue. Other work has appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, New York Times, and the Saturday Evening Post of which he was the editor.  A previous book of stories, Lent: The Slow Fast, was published by the University of Iowa Press. His poetry has been published by the Furman University’s ‘Ninety-six’ Press, Snake Nation Press, and Southern Poetry Review. His poem, “Greeks” will be forthcoming in The New Yorker. He graduated from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and served with the army in the Middle East and Africa.

                                                Reviews

“. . . an extraordinary accomplishment . . . stories remarkable for their diversity and honesty of voice, their shifting, convincing moods and the universality of their emotional landscape . . . a writer in full command of his imagination and craft.
- ”William W. Starr, THE STATE

“Well crafted and vivid in language . . .
a funny and sad whole that powerfully exceeds the sum of its parts.  Characters ... universally motivated by love in a variety of forms.”
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Questions are raised about aspects of life often held sacred . . . sexual attraction . . . religion . . . war.  Flythe has us see these people with the kind of honesty that leads to compassion and forgiveness.”
- Deborah Cumming, THE GREENWOOD INDEX-JOURNAL

“Insights into ways in which emotions move humans into dangerous currents . . . a lonely, unattractive daughter of a cancer-curing doctor and his consumer wife is aroused when she accidentally sees her handsome older brother naked . . .full blooded, and believable.”
-Frances Mims, THE ANDERSON INDEPENDENT MAIL

“Riveting stories . . . these people defy and resist, determine and persist, regardless of the cost.”
-UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS

“Magnanimous, intelligent, fully imagined stories, in an astonishing range of voices.”
-Gail Godwin

“Lent: the Slow Fast is a beautiful, beautiful book . . . gives pleasure in all kinds of ways . . . delights the eye, the ears, the mind, and more than anything, the heart.  Starkey Flythe is for real.  He has a gift.”
-Tim O’Brien

“. . . Flythe’s characters are quirky and fascinating, reminiscent of those found in the stories of Muriel Spark . . . .  Flythe was the editor of The Saturday Evening Post . . . but the America he describes is certainly not the place conjured by another Post contributor, Norman Rockwell.  It’s much more wonderful
and strange.”
-THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW