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Nick Fuller Googins

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Genre
Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult

Influences
Ursula K Le Guin, Stephen King, Octavia Butler, Kurt Vonnegut

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Nick Fuller Googins is the author of the novel, The Great Transition (Atria Books). His short fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Men’s Health, The Sun, The Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He lives in Maine, and works as an elementary school teacher. He is a graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA program and recipient of a fellowship at the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, which is definitely not haunted.

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First, I didn't know you writings until a few weeks ago when I discovered by serendipity, The Frequency of Living Things, which I just reviewed favorably. So two questions: 1) How do you get your writing done when you apparently teach 4th graders full-time? I'm a former high school teacher. 2) Of your stated influences, I readily perceive King, I don't perceive Le Guin or Vonnegut. What in their works influences you?
Nick Fuller Googins Hi Arthur,

Thanks for the questions! I write in the morning before school, maybe 45 minute to an hour a day, but it surprisingly adds up. And weekends…moreHi Arthur,

Thanks for the questions! I write in the morning before school, maybe 45 minute to an hour a day, but it surprisingly adds up. And weekends of course, plus summer. I'm very luck to have no student debt so unlike many of my fellow teachers, my only second job over the summer is my writing.

Le Guin was a huge influence for The Great Transition...imagining a hopeful future and trying to envision that future on the page. Thanks so much for the read and the comment, hope you enjoy!

-Nick(less)
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Nick Googins answered Arthur's question:
First, I didn't know you writings until a few weeks ago when I discovered by serendipity, The Frequency of Living Things, which I just reviewed favorably. So two questions: 1) How do you get your writing done when you apparently teach 4th graders full-time? I'm a former high school teacher. 2) Of your stated influences, I readily perceive King, I don't perceive Le Guin or Vonnegut. What in their works influences you?
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Hi Arthur,

Thanks for the questions! I write in the morning before school, maybe 45 minute to an hour a day, but it surprisingly adds up. And weekends of course, plus summer. I'm very luck to have no student debt so unlike many of my fellow teachers, See Full Answer
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“We don’t get to choose which battles we’re born into,” she says. “The only thing we get is to choose what we'll do. Will we join the fight? Or will we turn our backs?”
― Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition
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“Inside every battery is a piece of a storm when you think about it”
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“Our biology pushes us to be with others, to help and to care. That’s why it’s so easy to fall in love.”
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