Interview featured in the KnoxvilleVoyager: Life & Work with Tema Stauffer 

A solo exhibition of 25 large-scale prints from Southern Fiction is currently on view at East Tennessee State University’s Reece Museum through March 1. The reception and artist talk will take place on Thursday, February 2 from 5-7pm.

Southern Fiction is listed as one of 7 display-worthy books ideal for gift-giving by Suzanne Van Atten for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The Luupe included Southern Fiction in a round up of “Fifty-Seven Photography Books That Made Us See Differently in 2022”: Best Photobooks of 2022

Bill Shapiro features Southern Fiction along with books by Elaine Mayes, Ernst Haas, Gordon Parks, Saul Leiter, Bill Willoughby, Mitch Epstein, and Leah Frances: Our Favorite Photo Books of Fall 2022 

  Lauren Rhoades talks with Tema Stauffer, a photographer whose work examines the social, economic, and cultural landscapes of American spaces. Tema’s new series of photographs, SOUTHERN FICTION, explores the settings that shaped the literary imaginations of 20th-century Southern writers, including Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright. A monograph of SOUTHERN FICTION will be […]

Contributing writer Lauren Rhoades and I will be in conversation about Southern Fiction on the front lawn of the Eudora Welty House on Saturday, October 8 from 4-6pm. Lauren Rhoades is a writer and the director of grants at the Mississippi Arts Commission. Formerly, she served as director of the Eudora Welty House & Garden, a […]

Writer Kathryn Savage will join me at Lemuria Books in Jackson, Mississippi on Friday, October 7 at 5pm to sign and discuss our books, Southern Fiction and Groundglass. Kathryn Savage’s writing has appeared in American Short Fiction, Ecotone Magazine, the Virginia Quarterly Review, BOMB, and the anthology Rewilding: Poems for the Environment. Recipient of the Academy […]

Three prints from Southern Fiction are included in an exhibition of contemporary photographs and lens-based works at The Vault Gallery in the Wadsworth Auditorium at the University of West Georgia. Infinite Weight / Present Histories was curated by Hallie Ringle, the Hugh Kaul Curator of Contemporary Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art and the […]

Harper’s Magazine published a portfolio of images accompanied by an essay from Southern Fiction by contributing writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffer’s in their August issue: Almost Home