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  <name><![CDATA[Russell Rowland]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[I'm a Montana native, and I'm happy to say I recently returned home. My first novel, &lt;i&gt;In Open Spaces&lt;/i&gt;, made the San Francisco Chronicle's bestseller list. I got my MA in Creative Writing from Boston University in 1991, and have been a MacDowell fellow and a fortune cookie writer. &lt;i&gt;The Watershed Years&lt;/i&gt;, the sequel to number one, just came out last year. I am the fiction editor to a new online literary magazine, www.stonesthrowmagazine.com]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Wallace Stegner, WIlliam Faulkner, James Joyce, Raymond Carver]]></influences>    <hometown>Bozeman, Montana</hometown>  <born_at>12/02/1957</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[In Open Spaces]]></title>
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  <published>2002</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Watershed Years]]></title>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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