DAREN DEAN
Latest Novel From UWA Livingston Press!
"Dean’s greatest power is his beauty of storytelling and it’s delivered on every page along with the age old saying, that what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger."
—Frank Bill author of Back to the Dirt, Crimes in Southern Indiana, Donnybrook, The Savage
"Daren Dean employs a variety of perspectives and voices in this incisive, moving novel, but at the heart of each of his character's stories is, as the title suggests, the basic human longing for shelter - for refuge, for sanctuary, for comfort. The awful storm threatening the lives and property of the residents of Satsuma Grove, Louisiana, propels the residents toward a greater understanding of what shelter truly means. Shelter Me is a nuanced and wise work of art, honest but consoling."
--John Gregory Brown, Author of Decorations of a Ruined Cemetery, The Wrecked, Blessed Body of Shelton Lafleur, A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
Daren Dean is the author of eight books, Far Beyond the Pale (Fiction Southeast Press). I'll Still Be Here Long After You're Gone: Stories (Cowboy Jamboree Press), The Black Harvest: A Novel of the American Civil War (University of West Alabama's Livingston Press), This Vale of Tears (CJ Press), Roads (CJ Press), The New Salvation and Other Stories (CJ Press), Lovesick, a prose chapbook (Louisiana Literature Press), and Shelter Me, A Novel (UWA Livingston Press, Scheduled for an October 24, 2025 pub date). He earned an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. The Black Harvest was nominated for the Pen/Faulkner, the W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction, and Midlands Author Award. Roads was a featured Indie review in Kirkus Reviews in 2023. Dean is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lincoln University of Missouri. He lives in Missouri with his wife and children.
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