[1] Panowich grew up an "Army brat" in Europe before moving to East Georgia.
[3] Panowich won the 2016 International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel and the Southern Book Prize for fiction.
[4] He is also a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist[citation needed] and the 2020 Georgia Author of the ear.
El País called his work about adventures in the mountains of Georgia "Country Noir".
[7] In 2015 ITV Studios optioned Bull Mountain for adaptation into a TV series.