---------------------------------------- John M. Floyd, author of more than 850 published short stories,
articles, poems, and essays, was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi,
on November 25, 1947, to Edward Coleman Floyd and Carolyn Farrell
Floyd. The family lived in the small town of Sallis, Mississippi,
while he and his sister Ann were growing up. After graduating
from Kosciusko High School, Floyd earned a degree in Electrical
Engineering from Mississippi State University. He was hired
by IBM in Jackson, Mississippi, and then took a four-year military
leave-of-absence to serve in the U.S. Air Force. He was stationed
at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, where he met his
wife Carolyn. Today they live in Brandon, Mississippi, and have
three children: Michael, David, and Karen. Floyd’s publishing credits include The Strand Magazine, Woman’s World, Pleiades, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. He won the 2007 Derringer Award for short mystery fiction, has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, and has a number of stories available on Amazon Shorts. Several of his stories have also been distributed worldwide in Braille and on audiotape and CD, and for the past two years he has written a weekly column for the mystery site criminalbrief.com. Floyd also served as editor in 2009 for The Gift of Murder, an annual anthology of Christmas mystery short stories published by Wolfmont Press, to benefit the charity Toys for Tots. Nineteen authors from the U.S. and Canada volunteered their talents for the project, whose profits go the Toys for Tots Foundation. Floyd’s stories have appeared in more than a dozen other
regional and national anthologies, including Seven
By Seven (2006), in which seven authors from seven
different states were chosen to write seven stories each about
the Seven Deadly Sins. In addition to writing short stories, Floyd has for the past nine years taught writing courses in the Community Enrichment program at Millsaps College. He has also been a guest speaker at writers' conferences and workshops throughout the U.S. Over the years John M. Floyd has tried many different kinds of writing, and enjoys them all—but short fiction is the one he loves the most. --------------------------------------------------------------
Interview with
John M. Floyd
(coming soon)
Southern Scribe interviews John Floyd. Dogwood Press's page for John Floyd. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd, John. Presentation at Bryan Library, West Point, MS. December, 2009. |
In
2006 Dogwood Press published a hardcover collection of thirty
of Floyd’s mystery/suspense short stories called Rainbow’s
End. That book was followed in 2008 by a second
collection of short stories called Midnight.
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