Thomas McConnell’s work has appeared in the Connecticut Review, the Cortland Review, Calabash, Yemassee, the Emrys Journal, the Charleston Post & Courier, Crossroads: A Southern Annual, Writing Macao, and Ars Medica, among other publications. His awards include prizes in the Porter Fleming Awards for Fiction, Essay, and Drama, the South Carolina Fiction Project, the H.E. Francis Award, and the Hardagree Award for Fiction. His lectures and readings have taken him to Istanbul, Berlin, and the Sorbonne in Paris. He serves on the editorial advisory board of Hub City Books, a literary press specializing in work of the southern United States.

His collection of stories, A Picture Book of Hell and Other Landscapes, was published by Texas Tech University Press in 2005 and nominated for the PEN/Bingham Award and the John Gardner Award for Short Fiction.

Educated at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and at the University of Georgia, he is professor of English at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, where he also directs the honors program.

A Fulbright Scholar in the Czech Republic for 2005-2006, he completed a novel while lecturing on American literature and creative writing at Masaryk University.