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Rick DeMarinis

238 Rick DeMarinis Award winning novelist and short story writer Rick DeMarinis was born in New York City. He taught fiction writing at San Diego State University, Arizona State University and at the University of Texas at El Paso from 1988-1999, where he retired as full professor. DeMarinis is the author of the novels A Lovely Monster; Cinder; The Burning Women of Far Cry; The Year of the Zinc Penny, named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; The Mortician’s Apprentice; A Clod of Wayward Marl; and Sky Full of Sand. He has published six collections of short stories: Jack and Jill; Under the Wheat, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize; The Coming Triumph of the Free World; The Voice of America; Borrowed Hearts, winner of the Jesse H. Jones award for best fiction by the Texas Institute of Letters and the 2000 Independent Book Publishers Award; and Apocalypse Then: New Novellas and Stories. DeMarinis has also written The Art and Craft of the Short Story. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. From Apocalypse Then: New Novellas and Stories: Hell’s Cartoonist Electronic rights not granted. 239 . 240 ” 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 ...