Pete Candler Author

Pete Candler, born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Commonweal, The Bitter Southerner, The Christian Century, The Chicago Tribune, Southern Cultures, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. A graduate of Wake Forest University and The University of Cambridge, and a former professor of theology, he now lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where he writes about memory and forgetfulness in the American South. His photography collection, The Road to Unforgetting: Detours in the American South 1997 - 2022, was published in 2022.