Book Signing: The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First

Join us for a special book signing with Stephen Hundley, author of the debut fiction collection, The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First, releasing from North Georgia Press this Tuesday.

The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First showcases sixteen bizarre, hard-loving stories set in the foothills, pinelands, low country, and barrier islands of Georgia, and a few other places, too. In its pages, a boy and girl find a body on the marsh, a delusional nude model takes on the fight of his life, and a diver visits a sleeping nuclear bomb just a mile from the beach. Tourists eat shrimp and cheer for dolphins while a man falls in love with his television and a handy-woman sees jellyfish-like travelers from outer space.

Hundley’s men and women grapple with death, distant lovers, and damaged families as well as sharks, stray dogs, and man-eating tigers. This debut collection offers an intimate glimpse into a working class, American South populated by people who have made themselves acolytes of existential powers-weapons of mass destruction and alien invasions, the wide ocean and desperate love. This is a book for dreamers and space cadets, fighters and providers, and anyone who believes in a connection between the places we come from and the people we become. 

Stephen Hundley is the author of The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First (University of North Georgia Press, 2023) and Bomb Island (Hub City Press, 2024). He is a fiction editor for Driftwood Press, book review editor for Southeast Review, and his stories and poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, South Carolina Review, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. Stephen holds an MA from Clemson, an MFA from the University of Mississippi, and is currently completing a PhD in English at Florida State University, where he is writing a book about the feral horses of Cumberland Island.