Neil Connelly has published his short fiction in journals like The Yalobusha Review, Grist, Pinch, Southeast Review, and the Southern Indiana Review. Four of his novels have been published, by Arthur A. Levine, LSU Press, and Simon & Schuster. Before he returned to his home state of Pennsylvania, where he teaches creative writing at Shippensburg University, he directed the MFA at McNeese State in Louisiana.