Wes Blake is the author of Pineville Trace—winner of the Etchings Press Novella Prize, finalist for the Feathered Quill Book Award for Debut Author, finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award for First Novel, and featured on Deep South Magazine’s Reading List—from Etchings Press (2024). Pulitzer Prize finalist author Lee Martin called him a “writer to watch,” and SmokeLong Quarterly described his debut novel as an “utterly compelling read.” His fiction and essays have appeared in Electric Literature, storySouth, Louisiana Literature Journal, Blood & Bourbon, Book of Matches, and White Wall Review, among others, and he holds an MFA from the Bluegrass Writers Studio. He lives in Nonesuch, Kentucky, with his wife and cats where they’ve planted over 100 trees. Learn more at wesblake.com.
Pineville Trace
An “introspective, haunting tale that remains with us” (Heavy Feather Review) about a former revival preacher who walks away from an Eastern Kentucky prison in the 1970s, following a cat named Buffalo and trying to reconcile himself with his past.