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A.J. Howells

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Henry Miller, E. M. Forster, Zora Neale Hurston

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Adam Howells is known to greatly exaggerate his biography, but he swears this one is entirely truthful: he's the editor-in-chief of the sometimes active Makeshift Press which reprints old books and the occasional sparkly fresh one. He co-edited Journey Press' Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1958-1963). His fiction has appeared in The First Line and two volumes of Workers Write, and his poetry has appeared elsewhere. Once a week, he co-hosts The Mark Literary Review's Lit These Days podcast.

He lives the life of Riley in Virginia with his wife, two children, and two denizens of the underworld commonly referred to as "cats". He listens to entirely too much Sun Ra, and in his spare time, he teaches full time. ...more

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