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Steve
Almond was raised in Palo Alto, California, aka The Town Where
God Will Retire. He spent seven years as a newspaper reporter, mostly
in El Paso and Miami. He has been writing fiction for the last eight years.
His work can be found in a whole bunch of literary magazines, along with
the occasional porn outlet. He lives in Somerville, MA, and teaches creative
writing at Boston College. Steve welcomes your feedback: send
him a message.

Steve Almond has published short stories in the following magazines:
2004
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9th Letter, “In Hoboken, When I Was Young” (Spring 2004)
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Nerve.com, “Skull” (Fall 2004)
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Washington Square, “Guys I Hate” (Winter 2004)
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StoryQuarterly, “At Age 91, Anna Smolz of the Gmersh Unit,
Speaks” (Fall 2004)
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One-Story, “King of the Empty Kegs” (Winter 2004)
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Virginia Quarterly Review, “Have a Coke and a Bullet” (Winter
2004)
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Virginia Quarterly Review, “The Problem of Human Consumption”
(Spring 2004)
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2003
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Swink, “Good Boys Don’t Run Around Naked” (Fall 2003)
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Quick Fiction, “The Man Who Used to Be a Bishop” (Fall 2003)
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Nerve.com, “Third Nude Descending” (July 2003)
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Nerve.com, “The Idea of Michael Jackson’s Dick” (February
2003)
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Book Magazine, “This Remarkable Sojourn” (Spring 2003)
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Carolina Quarterly, “Belief” (Winter 2003)
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Heeb Magazine, “Little Isaac’s Nozzle of Love” (Forthcoming)
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Antioch Review, “What It’s Like to Be a Man” (Spring 2003)
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Yalobusha Review, "Straight Drop" (Spring 2003)
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Other Voices, "Summer, As in Love" (Spring 2003)
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Gulf Stream, "The King of Corn" (Spring 2003)
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Tin House, "The Breakup Vows" (Spring 2003)
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Playboy, "Appropriate Sex" (Spring 2003)
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New England Review, "Shotgun Wedding" (Spring 2003)
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Nerve.com "The Standard Male Equipment" (December 2002)
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StoryQuarterly, "The Man with the Alien Hand" (Fall 2003)
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Mid-American Review, "Cornucopia" (Fall 2003)
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2001-2002
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Arena Magazine (UK), "Daisy, Over Helpless Shirts, Weeps"
(July, 2002)
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Nerve.com, "Ode to a Greasy Earn" (May, 2002)
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Harvard Review, "The President Returns" (March, 2002)
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Playboy, "Sauce" (Forthcoming, 2002)
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The Missouri Review, "This Company Died for Your Lawn, This
Lawn Died for Your Company" (January 2002)
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Book Magazine, "A Happy Dream" (January 2002)
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Salt Hill, "What Were the Sophists" (Spring 2002)
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StoryQuarterly, "Chibas Speaks" (Spring 2002)
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The New England Review, "The Pass" (Winter 2002)
Won the 2002 Pushcart Prize
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Ploughshares, "Run Away, My Pale Love" (Spring 2002)
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Southern Review, "The Most Romantic Story Ever" (Winter
2002)
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Another Chicago Magazine, "Last Single Days of Don Viktor
Potapenko" (Spring 2002)
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Fence, "The Noble Meerkat" (Spring 2002)
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Tin House, "The Soul Molecule" (Spring 2002)
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Boulevard, "Pornography" (September 2001)
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Zoetrope, "The Evil B.B. Chow" (August 2001)
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Playboy, "How to Love a Republican" (December 2001)
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Antioch Review, "Lincoln, Arisen" (Fall 2001)
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Playboy, "My Life in Heavy Metal" (April 2001)
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Southern Review, "God Bless America" (Winter 2001)
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Shenandoah, "God Stones" (Winter 2001)
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Mid-American Review, "Da Birds and Da Bees" (Spring 2001)
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Other Voices, "Larsen's Novel" (Spring 2001)
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The Sun, "Ecstasy" (June 2001)
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South Carolina Review, "Divorcing Johnny Ponder" (Spring
2001)
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The New England Review, "I Am as I Am" (Winter 2001)
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Tatlin's Tower, "Life in Syndication" (June 2001)
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1999-2000
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New England Review, "A Dream of Sleep" (Winter 2000)
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Michigan Quarterly Review, "Spartacus" (Spring 2000)
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Ex-Files: An Anthology, "The Body in Extremis" (Winter
2000)
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The Missouri Review, "Geek Player, Love Slayer" (Fall
2000)
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Tulane Review, "Islands" (Winter 2000)
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Fiction Writer, "A Book of Some Sort" (April, 2000)
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The Sun, "Hope Wood" (September 2000)
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Ascent, "Levels" (Spring 2000)
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Tatlin's Tower, "That Around Which Memory Grows" (Winter
2000)
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Southern Review, "The Idea of Sirloin" (Spring 1999)
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Zoetrope, "Among the Ik" (February 1999)
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North Dakota Quarterly, "If He Asks You, Tell Him I Was
Flying" (Spring 1999)
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Puerto Del Sol, "Recovery" (Summer 1999)
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HAPPY, "Your Future in This Town" (Summer 1999)
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Mid-American Review, "Nights Such as These" (Spring 1999)
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Sycamore Review, "Tell Me Where It Hurts" (Summer 1999)
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Rio Grande Review, "Genesis, At Rest" (Summer 1999)
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Other Voices, "Valentino" (Spring 1999)
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Ascent, "As Bullet Meets Bone, So We Dance" (Spring
1999)
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1996-1998
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North American Review, "Moscow" (December 1998)
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City Primeval, "Jimmybug to the Hole" (Spring 1998)
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Gulf Stream, "Spooks" (Spring 1998)
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Puerto Del Sol, "A Good Man Feels Responsible" (Summer
1998)
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Denver Quarterly, "The Law of Sugar" (Summer 1998)
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Bellingham Review, "Soft Machines" (Spring 1998)
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Fugue, "Prayer" (Spring 1997)
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The Alembic, "Practical Application" (Spring 1997)
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Red Cedar Review, "Progress" (Spring 1997)
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Manoa, "Sometimes Folksongs" (Winter 1997)
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Georgia Review, "Old Growth" (Spring 1997)
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Rio Grande Review, "Alteration," (Summer 1996)
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© 2003, Steven Almond
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