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Tim Conroy is a poet and former educator. His work has been published in journals, magazines, and compilations, including Fall Lines, Auntie Bellum, Blue Mountain Review, Jasper, Marked by the Water, and Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy. In 2017, Muddy Ford Press published his first book of poetry, Theologies of Terrain, edited by Columbia, South Carolina, poet laureate Ed Madden. A founding board member of the Pat Conroy Literary Center established in his brother\\u2019s honor, Tim Conroy lives in Columbia.

Host Jonathan Haupt Kentucky-born Jonathan Haupt  has served as Director of the University of South Carolina Press and, prior to that, as USC Press\\u2019s Assistant Director for sales and marketing. Under Haupt\\u2019s leadership, USC Press was honored with a South Carolina Governors Award in the Humanities, given in recognition of the Press\\u2019s commitment to education through humanities publishing. In 2013, he established the Press\\u2019s acclaimed Story River Books fiction imprint, edited by Pat Conroy and named by Garden & Gun magazine as one of the top ten things to love about the South. His directorship at USC Press has been defined by a consistent commitment to serving the interests of writers and readers in and beyond South Carolina. Haupt created the Pat Conroy at 70 Festival in October 2015, an immersive literary event that was equal parts birthday celebration, book festival, writers conference, film festival, civic pride ceremony, community outreach program, and family reunion. Following Conroy\\u2019s death, Haupt remade the festival as the Pat Conroy Literary Festival.

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