Wes Blake has been called a “writer to watch” by Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin. He is the author of the novella Pineville Trace, Winner of the Etchings Press Novella Prize and Finalist for the Feathered Quills Book Award for Debut Author (University of Indianapolis' Etchings Press, 2024); the book was featured on Deep South Magazine's Fall/Winter Reading List 2024-25. Wes' fiction and essays have been featured in Electric Literature, storySouth, and Louisiana Literature Journal, among others, and he holds an MFA from the Bluegrass Writers Studio. He lives in Kentucky.