Steven Faulkner

Steven Faulkner grew up in what is now South Sudan and in Ethiopia in Africa, and later in Kansas. After dropping out of college, he worked a variety of jobs: driving dump trucks, planting grave vaults, newspaper and doughnut delivery, and fourteen years as a carpenter. He returned to school, acquired the necessary degrees, and now teaches Creative Writing at Longwood University in southern Virginia. His first book was Waterwalk: A Passage of Ghosts . His new book is Bitterroot: Echoes of...See more

Steven Faulkner grew up in what is now South Sudan and in Ethiopia in Africa, and later in Kansas. After dropping out of college, he worked a variety of jobs: driving dump trucks, planting grave vaults, newspaper and doughnut delivery, and fourteen years as a carpenter. He returned to school, acquired the necessary degrees, and now teaches Creative Writing at Longwood University in southern Virginia. His first book was Waterwalk: A Passage of Ghosts . His new book is Bitterroot: Echoes of Beauty and Loss . Both are nonfiction accounts of father-son journeys along historic trails. See less