This Spring, the OA will focus on food.
Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.
Mark Richard
About
Mark Richard’s first collection, The Ice at the Bottom of the World, won the 1990 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for a first book of fiction. Following this were the acclaimed story collection Charity and the novel Fishboy. His writing has appeared in the Oxford American, Harper’s, Esquire, Vogue, Spin, and elsewhere.