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Greg Fields

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Contemporary, Fiction, Literary Fiction

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Pat Conroy; Niall Williams

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Greg Fields is the author of Through the Waters and the Wild, winner of the 2022 Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction, the Independent Publishers Association Award, the New York Book Award for Literary Fiction and two other national recognitions. His first novel, Arc of the Comet, was published in 2017. He is currently an editor for his publisher, Koehler Books, and has presented at several writers conferences, including the International Dublin Writers Festival, the Bay Area Book Fair, and Central Coast Writers Conference. The Bright Freight of Memory has won the American Writing Awards honor for Literary Fiction, the Chrysalis/BREW Book of the Year, and has been nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award.

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