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Favorite authorsApuleius, St. Augustine, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Ray Bradbury, Larry Brown, Pete Dexter, Charles Dickens, Edith Hamilton, Barry Hannah, John Irving, Denis Johnson, Thom Jones, Ring Lardner, Elmore Leonard, Michel de Montaigne, Tim O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, François Rabelais, George Singleton, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut (Shared favorites)

About meI once believed that I would be a smashing success as a writer of literary fiction by now, and I even went to writing school and got the MFA.

We all have our dreams, don't we?

These days, of course, I am not a smashing success as a writer of literary fiction but a high school English teacher near Mark Twain territory in Missouri--which explains the growing list of young adult books on my shelf.

I write fiction when I can steal the time and read anything I can get my hands on, even when I can't or shouldn't steal the time.

I have been lucky enough to publish my work in literary journals here and there, and I've also done some other freelance writing--mainly book reviews and essayish opinion pieces about baseball.

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