Tim Parrish presents a free reading at UAB. Parrish is the author of three books: Fear and What Follows: The Violent Education of a Christian Racist, a Memoir (University Press of Mississippi); The Jumper, a novel (winner of Texas Review Press’s 2012 George Garrett Prize for fiction); and Red Stick Men, a short-story collection set in his hometown of Baton Rouge (University Press of Mississippi). His work has appeared in dozens of periodicals and in a number of anthologies, including Louisiana in Words, Alive and Awake in the Pelican State, The Best of LSU Fiction, and Rules of Thumb. He is the recipient of a Gerald A. Freund Grant-in-Aid from the Whiting Foundation, two Connecticut Arts Fellowships, and a Walter E. Daken Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He was  the 2014 Keynote Speaker at the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium. In a former life he performed as the front man for the bands The Human Rayz (as Ray Don Entebbe), The Lower Chakras, and The Irascibles. He is a professor in the creative-writing program at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven and the founder of the first full-residence Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program in the state.