About

 John T Edge, author of House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home, writes and hosts the television show TrueSouth which broadcasts via the SEC Network and ESPN and streams via ESPN, Hulu, and Disney. He also serves as executive producer for the ESPN show, Where it Lies.

A widely published magazine writer, he serves Garden & Gun as a columnist. Twice winner of the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, Edge wrote widely praised The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South.

In 1998, he founded the Southern Foodways Symposium at the University of Mississippi. From 1999 through 2021, Edge directed the Southern Foodways Alliance. Awarded an honorary doctorate by Centenary College, winner of the nonfiction prize from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Edge was elected to the Georgia Writer’s Hall of Fame. In 2015, Edge began teaching narrative nonfiction in the low-residency MFA program at the University of Georgia.

At the University of Mississippi, he directs the Mississippi Lab, where he leads the development of Greenfield Farm Writers Residency, set on William Faulkner’s onetime mule farm. Edge also serves as a teacher and writer-in-residence for the Department of Writing and Rhetoric. Edge lives in Oxford, Mississippi with his wife, the artist Blair Hobbs.