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Adam VanWinkle

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Ardmore, OK, The United States

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Adam Van Winkle was born and raised in Texoma on both sides of the Oklahoma-Texas border and currently resides with his wife and two dogs on a rural route in Southern Illinois. His writing has appeared in places like Cheap Pop!, Crack the Spine, Vignette Review, Steel Toe Review, Dirty Chai, and Pithead Chapel. His debut novel, Abraham Anyhow, was published by Red Dirt Press in March 2017. His creative writing focuses, not surprisingly, on the rural folks he grew up with. In Summer of 2015 he founded Cowboy Jamboree Magazine, named for an old book of cowboy campfire songs to publish and promote gritty rural and western stories. Cowboy Jamboree issues now receive thousands of readers. Van Winkle is named for the oldest Cartwright son on Bona ...more

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