Ray Shea's writing has appeared in fwriction : review, decomP, The Citron Review, Specter, The Rumpus, and the Chin Music Press anthology Where We Know: New Orleans as Home. He has been nominated for Best of the Net 2012 and the Pushcart Prize, and was recently a finalist for the Sidney W. Vernick Award in Nonfiction. A native of Boston and New Orleans, he currently splits his time between Austin and New Hampshire, and can be found online at raynola.tumblr.com.---------
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