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Ross Howell Jr. graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in English and American Literature. He later earned a Master’s degree in English and American Literature from Harvard University and an M.F.A. degree in fiction writing from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.

A winner of the Gray-Carrington Scholarship Award, the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, and the Raven Award at the University of Virginia, Howell is a member of the Raven Society and Phi Beta Kappa. He was the recipient of a Danforth Foundation fellowship to attend graduate school.

His fiction has been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Sewanee Review, Gettysburg Review, and other magazines. He writes, freelance edits, and teaches at Elon Univer
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Ross Howell Jr. Five years ago I helped rescue a mixed-breed pit bull named Sam. No one would adopt him, so he's been a member of our family ever since. When I took h…moreFive years ago I helped rescue a mixed-breed pit bull named Sam. No one would adopt him, so he's been a member of our family ever since. When I took him for walks, sometimes people would cross to the other side of the street to avoid him. I understand why. He was big and gaunt. He was badly scarred. His coat was thin. Now that he's healthy and fit, people sometimes come up to pet him, and comment how handsome he is. He's as gentle a creature as I've ever been around. My dog Sam's the inspiration for the pit bull in the novel. Lucky is the perfect metaphor for the society the narrator Charlie Mears faces and for what he longs for as a person.
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Ross Howell Jr. An orange-colored man with horrifically-styled hair and the best words ran for president of the United States. He won.
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Pigs, Presidents, and Porn Stars

There’s a lesson you learn quickly and profoundly growing up on a farm: if you want to catch a pig, you better be willing to get dirty. That lesson runs counter to the media high-mindedness I read today after a Saturday night rally in Pennsylvania where President Donald Trump called journalist Chuck Todd a “sleepy […]
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The Waking

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me, so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
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