Christopher Swann is a bestselling novelist and teacher. A member of the Atlanta Writers Club and International Thriller Writers, Chris earned his Ph.D. in creative writing from Georgia State University. He has been a Georgia Author of the Year, a Townsend Prize finalist, and longlisted for the Southern Book Prize. He lives with his wife and two sons in Atlanta, where he teaches English at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School.
Winner, Georgia Author of the Year 2022
Townsend Prize for Fiction Finalist 2018
Georgia Author of the Year Finalist, 2021 and 2018
Southern Book Prize Long List 2018
Southern Living Best Southern Books of 2017
August 2022 interview on Friends & Fiction with Karin Slaughter (video)
June 2022 interview with Voyage ATL
December 2021 interview on Friends & Fiction with John Hart (video)
September 2021 conversation with Emily Carpenter via Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, VA (video)
July 2019 interview with Clifford Brooks on Dante’s Old South from WUTC in Chattanooga (link to sound file below):
August 2018 interview with “Virginia This Morning” on Richmond’s local CBS station, WTVR
August 1, 2017 book launch (video below):
August 2017 podcast: “Inside the Writer’s Studio” with Charlie Lovett (inaugural podcast)
August 2017 GPB interview with Celeste Headlee, On Second Thought (starts at 23:00)
August 2017 interview with Shelf Awareness: “There’s No Running from the Past”
August 2017 interview with Caroline Leavitt at CarolineLeavittville
July 2017 interview with Deep South Magazine: “Christopher Swann Asks, ‘What Would You Do?'”
July 2017 interview with Keith Ryan Cartwright at The Tennessean
