Jeffrey Dale Lofton

Jeffrey Dale Lofton hails from Warm Springs, Georgia, best known as the home of Roosevelt’s Little White House. He calls the nation’s capital home now and has for over three decades. He is a senior advisor at the Library of Congress where he is surrounded by books and people who love books—in short, paradise.
 
Red Clay Suzie is his first novel, a fictionalized memoir written through his personal lens as an outsider—gay and living with a disability in a conservative family and community in the Deep South.

Red Clay Suzie was Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize, twice named an Indie Next Pick by the American Booksellers Association, and was awarded the Seven Hills Literary Prize for Fiction. He was named Georgia Author of the Year for first novel and was the Pat Conroy Literary Center Spring 2024 Writer-in-Residence.
 
You can learn more about Jeffrey at JeffreyDLofton.com.