Southern Range: Collected Longer Poems, 1980-2022

John Lane is the author of many books of poetry and prose, including eight from Mercer University Press. He has won the Louisville Review Prize and Prairie Schooner's Glenna Luschei Award. His ABANDONED QUARRY: NEW & SELECTED POEMS won the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Poetry Book of the Year prize in 2012. In 2014 he was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. A cofounder of the Hub City Writers Project in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Lane also taught creative writing and environmental studies at Wofford College for over three decades.