{"id":12196,"date":"2021-03-22T09:37:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T13:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/?p=12196"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:03:58","slug":"spc-professor-publishes-short-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/spc-professor-publishes-short-story\/","title":{"rendered":"SPC Professor publishes short story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">St. Petersburg College<\/a> Professor Gregory Byrd recently published a short story in the <a href=\"https:\/\/baltimorereview.org\/index.php\/winter_2021\/contributor\/gregory-byrd\">Winter 2021 issue of Baltimore Review.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/gregheadshotlowres.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Professor Gregory Byrd in a dark shirt and vest.\" class=\"wp-image-12197\" width=\"187\" height=\"280\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Byrd, who teaches writing and humanities at SPC, spent time as a Fulbright Fellow in Albania in 2011, teaching creative writing. His story, Dita e Ver\u00ebs, is a tale of unimaginable grief juxtaposed with a festive setting at the annual Albanian celebration of spring by the same name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile I was there, my mother sent news that my cousin had been murdered in rural Nevada, her body buried in a shallow grave,\u201d Byrd said. \u201cAbout that time, we attended the Summer Day festival and it seemed ironic in a sort of T.S. Eliot way, that there would be a celebration of life while I was thinking of my cousin\u2019s murder.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Byrd has been nominated for a prestigious Pushcart Prize, and his poetry and prose have appeared widely, recently in&nbsp;<em>Apalachee Review<\/em>&nbsp;and forthcoming in&nbsp;<em>Saw Palm<\/em>. He is currently working on two World War I novels:&nbsp;<em>Where Shadow Meets Water<\/em>, about a pilot from Florida, and&nbsp;<em>Long Train Home to Scarborough<\/em>, about a reporter and a nurse. His poetry chapbook,<em>&nbsp;The Name of the God Who Speaks<\/em>, won the Robert Phillips Prize from Texas Review Press. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg College Professor Gregory Byrd recently published a short story in the Winter 2021 issue of Baltimore Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":743,"featured_media":12254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,3,101],"tags":[],"coauthors":[55],"class_list":["post-12196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-humanities-design-all","category-fine-arts","category-humanities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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