Join Hub City Writers Project for an evening with John T. Edge, author, TV host, and historian. Hosted by Dorothy Chapman Josey.
Join Hub City Writers Project for an evening with John T. Edge, author, historian, host of TRUE SOUTH, and Founding Director of the Southern Foodways Alliance. Light refreshments will be provided. All proceeds will benefit the Hub City Writers Project. Hosted by Dorothy Chapman Josey.
John T. Edge has written or edited more than a dozen books, served as culinary curator for the weekend edition of NPR’s All Things Considered, and has been featured on dozens of television shows from CBS Sunday Morning to Iron Chef. He is a contributing editor at Garden & Gun and has served as a columnist for the New York Times and the Oxford American. His magazine and newspaper work has been featured in eleven editions of the Best Food Writing compilation. He has won four James Beard Foundation awards including Beard’s M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award in 2012 and 2020.
Edge holds an MA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi. And an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College.
His 2017 book, The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, was named a best book of 2017 by NPR, Publisher‘s Weekly, and a host of others. Since 2018, he has hosted the television show TrueSouth, which airs on the SEC Network, ESPN, and is available on Hulu.
At the University of Mississippi, he directs the Mississippi Lab, serves as Writer-in-Residence in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric, and serves the Southern Foodways Alliance as Founding Director. Edge is a distinguished visiting professor in the MFA in Narrative Nonfiction program at the Grady College of the University of Georgia. Edge lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, Blair Hobbs, a teacher, writer, and painter.