Lowell Mick White is an American fiction writer living in Texas whose work focuses on the changing relationships between physical place and the individual.
[1] Born in Marion, Ohio, White grew up in Mankato, Minnesota, and Coxs Mills, West Virginia, and settled in Austin, Texas.
White chronicles its move from high to low tech as well as its transmogrification from a quaint, ‘everything’s local’ mentality to the strip-malled, suburban city it has become.”[8] White's novel, That Demon Life, won the Gival Press Novel Award and was nominated for the National Book Award.
"[10] A profile of White in the Austin American-Statesman said that the novel is "full of colorful, sketchy and disreputable characters you probably wouldn't want running your Brownie scout meeting.
White’s novel captures much of the freedom and fun of the old Austin while also entertaining readers with a recognizable Austin—one that has evolved even in the last decade.”[12] White currently teaches English at Texas A&M University, and is Writer-in-Residence at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas.