Roger Pinckney was born and raised in the South Carolina Lowcountry. He graduated from University of South Carolina and earned an MFA through the Iowa Writers Workshop. Pinckney farmed, taught school and wrote award-winning features for Minnesota and North Dakota newspapers. His first successful book was “Blue Roots,” a history of South Carolina voodoo. Since then, he’s produced several collections of essays and his novel, “Little Glory” has been purchased by a Hollywood independent film maker. Pinckney is a two-time winner of the South Carolina Fiction Project and Orion Writing Circle Award. His latest novel, “Reefer Moon,” will be released this spring by the Evening Post Publishing Company and Joggling Board Press. He lives on Daufuskie Island, one of the last free and wild barrier islands, where he writes and works diligently to preserve land and culture.