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Douglas Nordfors grew up in Seattle and graduated from Columbia University (BA) and The University of Virginia (MFA). Before going on to teach writing and literature at Milton Academy, The University of Virginia, and for several years at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, he worked at two of the country's most prominent bookstores: The Strand in New York City, and Powell's in Portland, Oregon. He currently lives outside Charlottesville, Virginia. In addition to writing "literary" novels, he is a poet whose work has been widely published in journals such as The Iowa Review, Poet Lore, Quarterly West, Poetry Northwest, and The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, and his first poetry book was published in 2008 with Plain View Press. He has written close to 150 book, theater, and music reviews, and articles, for the alt weekly, C-VILLE Weekly.