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Stephen Shifflett

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in Nederland, Texas, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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I grew up in Graford, Texas, and later attended the University of Texas at Austin. For the last seven years, I have been coaching high school track and cross country and teaching English and journalism in Keene, Texas. JOSIE UNLIMITED is my first novel.

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