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May/June 2016 • Vol. XXXVIII No. 3 Fiction |

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Gregory Spatz’s most recently published books are the novel Inukshuk (Bellevue Literary Press, 2012) and the collection of interconnected novellas and stories What Could Be Saved (Tupelo Press, 2019). His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, New England Review, The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, Santa Monica Review, The Iowa Review, and many other journals as well as in Glimmer Train Stories. Spatz is the recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship and a Washington State Book Award. He directs the MFA program for creative writing at Eastern Washington University.

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