Tennessee Hill holds an MFA from North Carolina State University. Her work has been featured in
Poetry magazine,
Best New Poets,
Southern Humanities Review,
Adroit Journal,
Arkansas International, and elsewhere. She is a native of South Texas, where she still lives and teaches with her husband and their dog.
Hill's new novel is
Girls with Long Shadows.
At Electric Lit she tagged
seven "books about the small-town Southern Gothic and the creature comforts and ghosts that inhabit it." One title on the list:
A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan
The Southern Gothic genre loves its ghosts, but I’ve scarce encountered apparitions stranger than those that lurk Kenan’s fictional town of Tims Creek. 
The novel centers a young Horace Cross reckoning with his sexuality and race as a gay, black teenager in the fictional Tims Creek, a rural North Carolina town where the Cross family has lived for generations. Ghosts taking the shapes of animals and Horace himself haunt the young man as he spends a distressing evening wandering parts of his hometown stamped with his family name, praying, yearning, and battling. Kenan’s Tims Creek is a vibrant, difficult character, a landscape the late author returned to in other fictional works. The town itself becomes a way of looking closely at the South, its historical complicities, and its contemporary ones too.
Read about
another book on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
Arkansas International, and elsewhere. She is a native of South Texas, where she still lives and teaches with her husband and their dog.
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