{"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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[174,3,101],"tags":[],"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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12196"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12258,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12196\/revisions\/12258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}