{"id":1062,"date":"2025-08-03T16:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:16:18","slug":"robert-busby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2025\/robert-busby\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Busby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>author of <em>Bodock<\/em><\/strong>: <strong><em>Stories<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert Busby is\u00a0a<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>native of Pontotoc, who now lives in Memphis. His debut collection of stories,\u00a0<em>Bodock<\/em> received the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize. He has taught English at St. George\u2019s Independent School and White Station Middle School, and he currently works in marketing. His stories have appeared in literary magazines such as\u00a0<em>Cold Mountain Review, PANK, Pleiades, Sou\u2019wester,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Arkansas Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roberthoustonbusby.com\">Author website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/rbusby_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/rbusby_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/rbusby_lg-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/bodock.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/bodock.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/bodock-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bodock<br \/>\nOctober 24, 1:30pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-32"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}