Iris Calloway

Iris Calloway is the author of the novels The Quiet Line and Salt and Static, and the story collection A Smaller Hunger. Her fourth book, the novel The Almanac of Leaving, is forthcoming.

Her work returns again and again to the disappearing edges of the Southern coast: the towns being surveyed for buyouts, the radio stations going dark, the almanacs and ledgers families keep without quite knowing why. She is drawn to characters who inherit more record-keeping than meaning, and have to decide for themselves which parts to carry forward.

She currently lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, close enough to the water to still hear it, and teaches a fiction workshop each spring at the local library.