Born 1961, in San Antonio, TX; married Sarah Bell, 1993. Education: Warren Wilson College, B.A., 1983; University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, M.F.A. Addresses: Home: Nashville, TN. Office: English Department, Vanderbilt University, Station B 351654, 2301 Vanderbilt Pl., 331 Benson Hall, Nashville, TN 37235. Agent: Gordon Kato, 133 W. 75th St., Ste. 1A, New York, NY 10023. E-mail: tony.l.earley@vanderbilt.edu.

• Here We Are in Paradise (short stories), Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1994.
• (Author of preface) Home: American Writers Remember Rooms of their Own, edited by Sharon Fiffer and Steve Fiffer, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1995.
• (Author of preface) New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 1999, edited by Shannon Ravenel, Workman Publishing Company (New York, NY), 1999.
• Jim the Boy: A Novel, Little, Brown (New York, NY), 2000.
• Somehow Form a Family: Stories That Are Mostly True (essays), Algonquin (Chapel Hill, NC), 2001.
• The Blue Star: A Novel, Little, Brown (New York, NY), 2008.

Short story "Charlotte" appeared in Best American Short Stories 1993, edited by Louise Erdrich and Katrina Kenison, Houghton Mifflin, 1993; "The Prophet from Jupiter" appeared in Best American Short Stories 1994, edited by Tobias Wolff and Kenison, Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

Contributor of short stories to literary magazines, including Harper's magazine and Tri- Quarterly. Also contributor to various periodicals, including the New Yorker and Oxford- American. "The Simple Presence of Geese" was read and recorded by the author for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature. Some books also released as audiobooks.