Writer Jack Riggs discusses his journey to "discovering" the novel *When the Finch Rises*, how the historical and social issues of the time (1968), as well as those of the present, influenced the writing.
Jack Riggs’ writing has been published in *The Crescent Review*, *The Chattahoochee Review*, *The Habersham Review*, and *Writing, Making It Real*. In 2000, he was selected as an “Emerging New Southern Voice” at the Millennial Gathering of Writers of the New South at Vanderbilt University. He has been a finalist in the Glimmer Train Fiction contest and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.