Nancy Hartney writes short stories and, although she has lived in Texas and California, she is a daughter of the South loving its sweaty beauty and feeling grief about its dark underbelly.

Her debut novel with The Wild Rose Press and should be on shelves by 2021. It is the tale of a Marine returning from Vietnam to a South Carolina tobacco farm, a place no longer home, now filled with strangers. The Civil Rights Movement is uncoiling. The Women’s Movement is redefining relationships. War protestors fill the streets. Ghosts call. What does it take to survive physical violence, moral fatigue, and a changing love?

If You Walk Long Enough is fiction for adults that lived through the Vietnam War, millennials that never knew the conflict, the LGBTQ community, Nam vets, and fans of the historical narrative.

Washed in the Water, an award-winning debut collection, was published July 2013. A second short story collection, If the Creeks Don't Rise, came out November 2016. These wide-ranging tales put the reader eyeball-to-eyeball with people struggling to live when grit, and sometimes love, is their only currency. Both titles reflect the religious threads binding the deep South - a guiding light and worrisome footnote.

She has contributed to Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley, The Ocotillo Review, Arkansas Life, The Chronicle of the Horse, Sidelines, and the Horsemen's Roundup. Her book reviews have appeared in the Ft. Worth Star Telegram, motorcycle touring articles in American Iron, general interest pieces in Do South, Fayetteville Free Weekly, and Ozark Mountaineer. Her fiction has appeared in mid-west regional anthologies while Cactus Country, Frontier Tales, and Rough Country have featured her western tales. She writes for the Washington County Historical Journal Flashback (AR).

Recently Dash Lit Journal (CA), Stonecrop Magazine (ID), and Dead Mule School of Southern Literature (NC) have published her poetry. She lives in Arkansas.