[close] Casey Clabough is the author of the creative nonfiction work _The Warrior's Path: Reflections Along an Ancient Route_ and a number of scholarly books and essays on southern and Appalachian writers. He serves as English Graduate Director at Lynchburg College and as Literature Editor of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities' _Encyclopedia Virginia_. Clabough lives with his wife on a farm in Appomattox County, Virginia, where they pursue sustainability practices and raise a large garden.

Clabough earned an undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary before journeying south to pursue graduate study under the writer James Dickey at the University of South Carolina. Though Dickey would pass away during Clabough's first year in Columbia, Clabough would remain there to earn his Ph.D., writing a dissertation on Dickey's fiction that later would be published as his first book.

Former Virginia Poet Laureate George Garrett likens _The Warrior's Path_ to "the best work of John McPhee, Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard," while former North Carolina Poet Laureate Fred Chappell characterizes it as "solid, durable, and—entrancing." Cornell University writing professor Robert Morgan concludes that the narrative "draws us deep into an intimacy with our geography and culture, with all the triumphs, failures, and contradictions we are heir to."

Clabough currently is at work on two books: a historical novel set in Virginia and Brazil and a study of Virginia literature. [close]