About Me
Biography
Heath Dollar is the author of Waylon County: Texas Stories and Old Country Fiddle, which won the Texas Institute of Letters’ 2021 Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction and was named the March 2022 Read of the Month by Southern Literary Review. Dollar, whose work has appeared in a number of publications, was also a finalist for the Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story, and he won the 2018 Texas Observer Short Story Prize for “Ink Upon the Furrows.” He lives in Fort Worth.
Selected Publications
Ink Upon the Furrows (short story)
https://www.texasobserver.org/ink-upon-the-furrows/
Third Fiddle (short story)
https://deadmule.com/heath-dollar-fiction-january-2021/
Porkchop (short story)
http://mrbullbull.com/newbull/fiction/porkchop/
Dallas Morning News op-ed
Dallas Morning News op-ed
Where to Find My Work
Old Country Fiddle
https://www.reddirtpress.net/book-catalog/old-country-fiddle-stories
Waylon County: Texas Stories
https://www.amazon.com/Waylon-County-Stories-Heath-Dollar/dp/0998066141
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/waylon-county-heath-dollar/1127121182
Panther City Review
Red Dirt Forum
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1646338790/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Blog: Across the Texas Line
In the Media
Interviews
Southwestern University
https://www.southwestern.edu/live/news/13003-without-work-there-are-no-kolaches
Canvas Rebel
https://canvasrebel.com/meet-heath-dollar/
Voyage San Antonio
https://voyagesanantonio.com/interview/daily-inspiration-meet-heath-dollar/
Words on a Wire (KTEP El Paso)
https://wordsonawire.org/podcast/page/3/?et_blog
Book Reviews
Southern Literary Review
https://southernlitreview.com/reviews/march-read-of-the-month-old-country-fiddle-by-heath-dollar.htm
Lone Star Literary Life
https://www.lonestarliterary.com/node/1181
Press
Houston Chronicle
https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/books/texas-institute-of-letters-honors-houston-17119578
Press Release
https://texasinstituteofletters.org/news/2022-TIL-Winners-Press-Release.pdf
Readings
Reading at Fort Worth Live
Directory Link
Poets & Writers Directory Profile
Photo Gallery
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Music
I wrote "Byzantium" while living in Yellowstone National Park in the mid-1990s. Nijak recorded the song for the "By No Means" album around 2001.