Jay Busbee

Busbee was raised in Atlanta, GA. He graduated from Riverwood High School in 1986, is a 1990 graduate of the College of William & Mary's English program and a 1996 graduate of the University of Memphis’s Creative Writing MFA program.^{[citation needed]}

Busbee's work has appeared in ESPN.com,^[1] Esquire Magazine,^[2] USA Today,^[3] The Washington Post, Atlanta Magazine,^[4] Slam Magazine, The Chicago Sports Review,^[5] Memphis Magazine,^[6] 64, Bluff Magazine,^[7] Mid-South Sports and Leisure,^[8] The Flat Hat,^[9] The Memphis Flyer^[10] and many other publications. Jay Busbee is the creator and head writer for Sports Gone South.^[11]

He is a contributing editor of Atlanta magazine, and also writes the monthly "Painting the Corners" column for ChopTalk, the official Atlanta Braves magazine.^[12] He has scripted comic books published by Arcana Studio and Digital Webbing. He has also written the books The Face of the River,^[13] Sundown^[14] and Bluff City.^[15] He has also co-written Jam! Amp Your Team, Rock Your Business^[16] and the comic books Velvet Rope^[17] and Kade: Rising Sun.^[18] He contributed the third story of the book Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened.^[19]

On February 16, 2016, Busbee published Earnhardt Nation: The Full-Throttle Saga of NASCAR's First Family.^[20]

He has appeared in The People Vs. Larry Flynt, and continues to teach English at Georgia Perimeter College.^[21]

Busbee currently edits From the Marbles,^[22] the official Yahoo! Sports NASCAR blog, and Devil Ball Golf,^[23] the official Yahoo! Sports golf blog. He also contributes to The Post Game.^[24]

He is currently writing another novel called Run & Shoot.^[25]