Stephen Hays
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Stephen Hays

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International Gold Winner of the Readers’ Choice Book Awards (What Light Was), novelist Stephen Callaway Hays often focuses on the nature of Appalachia for inspiration in writing image-driven poetry and prose. As a native author of Chattanooga, many of his works deal with the mysterious interdependencies of Transcendentalism. Hays's poetical and prosaic writing styles are usually immediate, manic, sobering, and consolatory. Hays's subject matter often portrays complementary aspects of violence's dialectical relationship with the living world. Hays received his Bachelor of Arts in Secondary English from the University of Tennessee. Hays is a mentor, editor, debater, educator, cosmologist, entrepreneur, and philosopher. In his writing, Hays focuses on a social understanding of our place in things and where we’re going—politically, mythologically, and environmentally. Hays’s major works are his sci-fi screenplay “Whale Song,” his collected poems “Wrath of Light,” and his historical fiction work “What Light Was.” To view Hays’s novels, poems, commentaries, and his daily poetry readings, follow him at SpeakLowPoetry. Works by Stephen Hays: • (2007) Evil Universe, novel series, Legacy: Book 1 • (2008) Water, collected poems (2003-2007) • (2008) The Children of Kaco, novel series, Legacy: Book 2 • (2009) Red Day, novel series, Legacy: Book 3 • (2010) Birds and War, novel series, Legacy: Book 4 • (2011) 3023 A.D., novel series, Legacy: Book 5 • (2015) Wrath of Light, collected poems (2012-2015) • (2017) If we Love any of it, collected poems (2016-2017) • (2017) Whale Song, screenplay • (2022) Closer (than you think), stage play • (2025) What Light Was, dialogue novel • (2025) The Great Fall Guy
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