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Doug Dorst

Doug Dorst is the author of Alive in Necropolis, runner- up for the 2008 PEN/Hemingway Award, winner of the Emperor Norton Award, and San Francisco's 2009 One City One Book selection. Winner of a 2008 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, Dorst is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Epoch, and other journals, as well as in the anthology Politically Inspired. He is also a former Jeopardy champion. A longtime resident of San Francisco, Dorst now lives in Austin, Texas, where he teaches creative writing at St. Edward's University.

This biography was last updated on 07/15/2010.

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