About — The Person
Chad Prevost is an award-winning author, journalist, and podcaster — a poet, essayist, and retreat leader in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Eight books published; three more edited and compiled; one press founded, another rebuilt from scratch.
§ 01 · The Poet
Twenty years in the company of poems and the people who need to write them.
He is the author of four full-length collections — Mirage and Tar (2026), Snapshots of the Perishing World, A Walking Cliché Coins a Phrase, and The Blue Demon — and three chapbooks. His poems, prose poems, and essays have appeared in The Southern Review, Mid-American Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Puerto del Sol, The Seattle Review, Sentence, Matter: A Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and Thought Catalog, and in anthologies including Bear Flag Republic: California Prose Poems and Poetics (Alcatraz Editions) and City of the Big Shoulders (University of Iowa Press). His work has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
The full shelf →§ 02 · The Contemplative
The contemplative life is not a subject for him but a practice.
He holds an M.Div. from Truett Theological Seminary, and keeps a daily office of prayer, reading, and attention out of which the writing and the retreat work both come. He is an ICF-accredited coach and a Certified Enneagram Coach, and for many years has led workshops and retreats on creativity, discernment, and the Enneagram — including Shock Point: The Enneagram in Burnout and Stress and the daily-practice volume Who Do You Think You Are? 365 Meditations and the Books They Came From. His TEDxChattanooga talk, Breath, Surrender, and Your Courageous Conversation, holds the whole of it in twelve minutes.
§ 03 · The Teacher
Over the past twenty years he has worked as a writer, editor, researcher, professor, speaker, and workshop leader.
He holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing — poetry and fiction — from Georgia State University and taught writing for ten years at Georgia State, Georgia Perimeter College, Lee University, and Dalton State College. He has been putting rooms of writers at ease, and then usefully ill at ease, ever since.
§ 04 · The Journalist
As a journalist he has written for The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Good Men Project, and Vulture.
He was the third writer on the founding editorial team at FreightWaves, where he wrote hundreds of articles on the freight and technology industries, hosted video shows on economics and company culture, co-hosted the SiriusXM FreightWaves radio show, and was the original co-host of the award-winning What the Truck?!? podcast.
§ 05 · The Publisher
He has also built the rooms other writers' books come through.
He served as Publisher and Editorial Director of the literary press C&R Press for eight years, publishing forty titles in literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and has edited, developed, and produced books across nonfiction, memoir, anthologies, fiction, poetry, and interactive fiction for young readers. He is now the curator and founding publisher and director of Crossroads Publishing Group — an independent house for serious nonfiction built on a full editorial methodology, transparent terms, and the conviction that a true message deserves to reach the people who need it. A real press for writers who deserve one. He hosts its podcast, The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning, and the Hard Work of a Life.
Visit the press →§ 06 · Reach Him
Email chad@crossroadspublishing.group — for readings, retreats, the conversation practice, or publishing inquiries (the last of these will be met at the press).