Vicki Moreland is a North Carolina ASC Grant recipient whose essays and short stories ​have appeared in Adoptive Families, Emrys Journal, and North Carolina Literary Review. Her essay "Vital Signs" appears in You Can Adopt!, published by Ballantine Books.

In her current work, Vicki revisits the setting from her first novel, Visiting Strangers, in the chilling Southern Gothic Duck Hill. In this novel-in-progress, a retired sheriff must unravel his debilitated wife’s family secrets to find her former student, who has mysteriously disappeared.

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