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Alan Davis, who has published two prize-winning collections of stories (Rumors from the Lost World and Alone with the Owl), was born in New Orleans, near the mouth of the Mississippi, into a large Catholic family of Italian, French, and Irish ancestry. He now lives in Minnesota, near the Mississippi's headwaters among Garrison Keillor's Lutherans, where he teaches in the M.F.A. program at Minnesota State University, Moorhead (MSUM), and serves as Senior Editor at New Rivers Press. The press was founded in 1968 by C. W. "Bill" Truesdale and has published more than 330 titles. In 2001, after Truesdale's death, it was revived and relocated to MSUM, where its dual mission is to publish new and emerging writers and provide learning opportunities for students. The press honors Truesdale's progressive spirit by publishing work with a strong sense of place that speaks to our troubled times with satyagraha (the truthforce), empathy, and aesthetic courage. Davis has received, among other honors, two Fulbright awards (to Indonesia and Slovenia), a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, and a Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction in Creative Prose. He recently completed a third collection of stories and a novel.

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Praise for Alan Davis:

A magical collection of stories, one of the best I've encountered in years.Tim O'Brien

He has an original talent, a feel for action, a sparse yet vivid style, a sharp satirical sense, a keen eye and ear for the follies of the age.Walker Percy

Alan Davis's voice transports and sings. I wouldn't mind winding up as a character in one of his stories. Odds are, he'd do me justice. Dorothy Allison, New York Times Book Review


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