Vic Sizemore is the author of the novel God of River Mud, winner of the 2025 Tennessee Book Award; the essay collection Goodbye, My Tribe: An Evangelical Exodus; and the short story collection I Love You I’m Leaving. His fiction and nonfiction appear in Story Quarterly, North American Review, Southern Humanities Review, Portland Review, Reed Magazine, and many other journals. Sizemore's fiction has won the New Millennium Writings Award and has been nominated for Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best of the Net, and several Pushcart Prizes.