<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<GoodreadsResponse>
	<Request>
		<authentication>false</authentication>
		    <method><![CDATA[]]></method>
	</Request>
	<author id="1191902">
  <name><![CDATA[Steven Wingate]]></name>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1191902.Steven_Wingate]]></link>
  <fans-count type="integer">0</fans-count>
  <followers-count type="integer">0</followers-count>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206995326p5/1191902.jpg</image_url>
  <about><![CDATA[My debut short story collection &lt;a href=&quot;http://stevenwingate.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wifeshopping&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; won the 2007 Bakeless Prize for fiction from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and will be published by Houghton Mifflin in July 2008. Stories from it have been published in &lt;i&gt;Gulf Coast&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Mississippi Review&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Journal&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Pinch&lt;/i&gt;, and elsewhere. Excerpts, reviews, and (coming soon) some video are posted at my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stevenwingate.com&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;website&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.

I've also started a literary blog called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wordpress.com/stevenwingate&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;How It Feels to Be&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in which I'll talk about the craft of fiction and the writing life. Hope you'll join me there.
]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Robert Olen Butler &amp; Steve Katz (as mentors), Austen, Faulkner, Conrad, Hemingway, Defoe, Fielding, Amos Tutuola, Joy Williams, many others I can't think of now.]]></influences>    <hometown>Hackensack, NJ</hometown>  <born_at>03/26/1964</born_at>    
  
  
  <books>
        <book id="2721469">
  <title><![CDATA[Wifeshopping: Stories]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Steven Wingate]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1191902.Steven_Wingate]]></link>
    </author>
      </authors>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>14</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
</book>
      </books>
</author>
</GoodreadsResponse>