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Joe Woodward is a contributing writer to Poets & Writers Magazine. He is currently working on
a new biography, Lonely Heart: The Life of Nathanael West, which will be published by O/R Books in Fall 2010.
His recent cover story "Carol Muske-Dukes: The Novelist's Inner Poet" (Summer Reading Issue 2007) was a
winner at the Los Angeles Press Club Awards in June 2008. He's also written on Tobias Wolff, Bret Easton Ellis, Neal Pollack,
and David Foster Wallace.
His work has appeared in many publications including the San Francisco Chronicle Book
Review, Los Angeles Times Claremont-Upland Voice, LATIMES.com, Poets & Writers Magazine, and elsewhere. A finalist in
Glimmer Train Press Short Story Awards for New Writers, he has taught writing at Brooklyn College, City University of New
York, and Kingsborough Community College.
A native of southern California and resident of the suburbs his entire
life, save three years spent in New York City, Woodward received his B.A. in English from the University of Redlands and MFA
in English from Brooklyn College. His teachers, to whom he is forever grateful, include Allen Ginsberg, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer,
LS Asekoff, Joan Larkin, Ralph Angel, Roberta Smoodin, Bruce McAllister and many, many others.
His weekly column
“Eye on the Foothills,” from which his book Small Matters was gathered, appeared weekly in the Los Angeles Times
Claremont-Upland Voice in 2003-2004. He currently lives with his family in Claremont, California. He is represented by Elizabeth
Evans at Reece Halsey North Literary Agency.
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