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Born

Boston

Website

https://www.willdowd.net

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Genre

Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

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Shirley Jackson, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges ...more

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October 2017

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Will Dowd is a writer and artist from the Boston area.

His forthcoming collection, The Taste of Rain in Buenos Aires (Etruscan Press, Fall 2026), has been praised by Alan Lightman and Stuart Dybek, and his dream incubation literary practice was recently featured by the BBC World Service.

His debut collection, Areas of Fog, was named a Massachusetts Book Award Must Read. He serves as an editorial cartoonist for The Boston Globe and a poetry editor at Post Road Magazine. His monthly newsletter, The Lunar Dispatch, reaches thousands of readers in over a hundred countries.

His nonfiction often explore weather, the moon, and the natural world, blending nature writing with memoir, science, and cultural history, while his fiction has been called inti ...more

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