Prince of Sin City by Gary Walton

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Prince of Sin City

by Gary Walton

$24.99, paper

Gary Walton was born in Covington, Kentucky and grew up in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He received his B.A. from Northern Kentucky University in 1981. He studied writing and publishing at the University of South Dakota and then moved to Washington D.C. where he received a Ph.D. in International Modernism from the George Washington University. His areas of special interest are Twentieth-Century American Literature, the Irish Literary Renaissance and International Modernism. His dissertation was a poststructuralist comparative study of James Joyce’s Ulysses and the fiction of Donald Barthelme.  Currently, he is an Associate Professor of English at Northern Kentucky University where he teaches literature and writing courses.

Gary has published stories, poems, non-fiction and letters in a variety of publications including The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Black Mountain II Review, The Wooster Review, Black Buzzard Review, Slipstream, Pacific Coast Journal, Paper Bag, The Kentucky Philological Review, Journal of Kentucky Studies, California State Poetry Quarterly, The Cincinnati Poetry Review, The GW Review, Flights Magazine, Incliner, Dream Weaver, Chaffin Review, Inscape, et. al. His work has been reviewed in The Cincinnati Post, The Kentucky Post, The Small Press Review, The Kentucky Philological Review, Everybody’s News, Pacific Coast Journal, et. al.

His first chapbook of poetry is called The Sweetest Song (Peapod Press, 1988), and his second chapbook, called Cobwebs and Chimeras, was published by Red Dancefloor Press in 1995. It was chosen as a “March Pick” by The Small Press Review in 1997. The Newk Phillips Papers, his first book of collected short fiction, was published in 1995. In 1994 and 1995, Walton was nominated for the Pushcart prize. Gary’s third book of poetry, Effervescent Softsell, was published by Red Dancefloor Press in 1997. The Millennium Reel, his fourth book of poetry, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2003, and in 2008, Full Moon: The Melissa Moon Poems(Finishing Line Press, 2007) was nominated for a Kentucky Literary Award. In addition to poetry and fiction, Gary has written and produced radio plays for the Radio Repertory Company of Cincinnati.

His novel about Newport, Kentucky in its heyday as a gambling Mecca: Prince of Sin City was published by Finishing Line Press in 2009. His new book of poetry Eschatology Escadrille: Elegies and Other Memorabiliawas published by Finishing Line Press in 2013. In 2010, he was voted Third Place: “Best Local Author” Best of Cincinnati 2010 issue in City Beat magazine.

Walton has taught writing and literature at George Washington University, University of South Dakota, University of Cincinnati, and Northern Kentucky University. He has also worked as an Editor for the United States Coast Guard and several literary journals including Clifton Magazine, The Vermillion Literary Project and The Kentucky Philological Review. He is the current Editor of The Journal of Kentucky Studies. 

To contact Gary Walton, email him at waltong@nku.edu.