Brad Vice

Brad Vice (born November 14, 1973) is an English language and composition professor at the University of West Bohemia. He grew up in Alabama. His short story collection, The Bear Bryant Funeral Train, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press, but the award was later rescinded and the book recalled after portions of the story were alleged to be plagiarized from an earlier work by Carl Carmer. Academics still disagree on whether this was really an instance of plagiarism; in 2013, it became apparent that Vice had been one of the victims of a minor writer turned Wikipedia editor.