David Stuart MacLean
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David Stuart MacLean is a writer living in Chicago. He grew up in Central Ohio and worked on an assembly line in an auto plant, as a baker, as an organic farmer, as a dishwasher, and as an outdoor educator. He has lived in North Carolina, New Mexico, Texas, and Hyderabad, India.
His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Quarterly West, and This American Life. David was named the 2011 Best Emerging Writer in Non-Fiction by the PEN American Center. He has a PhD from the University of Houston and an MFA from New Mexico State University. He was a Fulbright Scholar in India in 2002-2003 and is a co-founder of the award-winning Poison Pen Reading Series in Houston, Texas. His memoir, The Answer to the Riddle is Me, is forthcoming in the fall of 2013 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
He's represented by the Markson Thoma Agency in America and the Curtis Brown Agency in the UK.
He has a dog. Her name is Sally.
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