Author of LGBTQ+, southern gothic, thrillers:PROPHET'S DEBT (2022) - Manly Wade Wellman Literary Award finalist.PROPHET'S LAMENTATION (2023) - Lambda Literary recommendation, July 2023.PROPHET’S DEATH (Coming July 2024)Robert Creekmore is from a rural farming community in Eastern North Carolina.He attended North Carolina State where he studied psychology. While at university, he was active at the student radio station. There, he fell in love with punk rock and its ethos.Robert acquired several teaching licenses in special education. He was an autism specialist in Raleigh for eight years. He then taught for four years in a small mountain community in western North Carolina.During his time in the mountains, he lived with his wife Juliana in a remote primitive cabin built in 1875. While there, he grew most of his own food, raised chickens, worked on a cattle farm, as well as participated in subsistence hunting and fishing.Eventually, the couple moved back to the small farming community where Robert was raised.Annoyed with the stereotype of the southeastern United States as a monolith of ignorance and hatred, he wanted to bring forth characters from the region who are queer and autistic. They now hold up a disinfecting light to the hatred of the region’s past and to those who still yearn for a return to ways and ideas that should have long ago perished.Robert’s first traditionally published novel, Prophet's Debt, was a Manly Wade Wellman Literary Award Finalist. His second, PROPHET’S LAMENTATION, was a Lambda Literary recommendation for July 2023.Read more about this authorRead less about this author