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About Me

Biography

  

Heath Dollar is the author of Waylon County: Texas Stories and Old Country Fiddle, the winner of the Texas Institute of Letters' Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction. Dollar has also won the Texas Observer Short Story Contest and the Gary Wilson Short Fiction Award, been named a finalist for the TIL's Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story, and twice been recognized as a semi-finalist for the American Short(er) Fiction Prize.  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/

The Lord Ain't Willing and the Creek's Done Rose (short story)

https://thebluenib.com/the-lord-aint-willing-and-the-creeks-done-rose-heath-dollar/

Porkchop (short story)

http://mrbullbull.com/newbull/fiction/porkchop/

The Flag Salesman (short story)   Issue 4.1

http://www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/cj-issues--authors.html

Dallas Morning News op-ed

 https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2013/08/16/lets-sing-the-praises-of-our-dallas-area-musical-heritage/ 

Dallas Morning News op-ed

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/2012/08/18/heath-dollar-bilingual-students-should-recognize-the-benefits/

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

 https://www.amazon.com/Panther-City-Review-Rachel-Pilcher/dp/099806615X/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=sleepingpanth-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=132c7487cdc1a0aade0d54ab95427964&creativeASIN=099806615X 

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

 https://heathdollar.blogspot.com/ 

In the Media

Interviews

Southwestern University

 https://www.southwestern.edu/live/news/13003-without-work-there-are-no-kolaches 

Cowboy Jamboree (Issue 4.1)

http://www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/cj-issues--authors.html

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

Readings

Reading at Fort Worth Live

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EB5rejR4pg 

Directory Link

Poets & Writers Directory Profile

https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/heath_dollar

Photo Gallery

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. 



Heath Dollar

heathddollar@yahoo.com

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