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Say hello to John Floyd, a local author in
Brandon who has written over 1000 published short
stories, articles, poems, and more!
John grew up in Sallis, Mississippi with his parents and
sister and graduated from Kosciusko High, after which he went to MSU for engineering.
After graduating, he worked for IBM in Jackson, during which time he served in
the U.S. Air Force at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, which is where he
met his wife Carolyn. He says that the start of his writing career probably began
in the airports and hotels on his travels during his thirty-year career at IBM.
His short stories have been featured in over 200 publications
since the early nineties, after Carolyn convinced him to send his work to
editors. He’s been nominated for several writing awards and won the 2007
Derringer Award for short mystery fiction. Though he’s tried out many different
types of writing, he says short fiction is his favorite—a fact that can be
clearly seen in his seven published short story collections. His most recent
collection, The Barrens, came out in 2018 and includes a story featured
in The Best American Mystery Stories 2018.
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