Dan McNay

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in Bloomington, IN, The United States
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Faulkner. Hemingway, Joyce, Agee, Sherwood Anderson, John Gardner

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October 2008


Dan McNay has lived in LA 25 years and for a lot of that time has worked at USC. He has been active in numerous writing workshops and studied in USC’s Masters of Professional Writing Program. He has purchased millions of dollars worth of computers for USC, won the staff speed calculator competition at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, paddled around Catalina Island with a bunch of Boy Scouts, sold used and rare books in the French Quarter, collected blood from unborn calves in a Utah slaughter house, lectured on Robbe-Grillet, worked the night shift in Monterey, San Francisco & Tucson, and owned and ran a cemetery in Illinois- not necessarily in that order.

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Dan McNay You get to sit at a desk and drink coffee or ride your bike twn miles while weaving your stories together
Dan McNay Just sit down and write every day
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