Blanche McCrary Boyd is a native of South Carolina. Her new novel, Tomb of the Unknown Racist, will be out from Counterpoint Press on May 8. She is also the author of four other novels, including The Revolution of Little Girls and Terminal Velocity, as well as a collection of essays titled The Redneck Way of Knowledge. Among the awards Boyd has won are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship, a Creative Writing Fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford. She has taught at Connecticut College since 1982.