David Rowell grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the deputy editor at the Washington Post Magazine and has taught literary journalism at American University and creative writing at the Harvard Extension School. He is a former executive editor at the award-winning magazine DoubleTake, and his short stories have appeared in the anthologies Virgin Fiction and Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-Five of North Carolina’s Finest Writers. The Train of Small Mercies is his first book.
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