‘I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that’s all.’
-Stephen King
Robert Dugan is a writer from Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. He holds a Master of Arts in Teaching from Shepherd University and a Ph.D. focused on academic integrity in modern classrooms. He teaches in Virginia and writes fiction centered on Appalachia, identity, and moral ambiguity.
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