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John T. Edge

John T. Edge, author of the forthcoming House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home, writes and hosts the television show TrueSouth and serves Garden & Gun as a columnist. His previous books include The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South. Edge directs the University of Mississippi’s Mississippi Lab, where he leads development of Greenfield Farm Writers Residency, and he serves as writer-in-residence for the UM Department of Writing and Rhetoric. Edge lives in Oxford with his wife, the artist Blair Hobbs, who painted the cover artwork for this year’s Oxford Conference for the Book.