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Will Dowd

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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

Member Since

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.

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Will Dowd Someone on your alumni listserve accidentally hits "Reply All" in response to a mass email. Someone else hits "Reply All" to reprimand them for hittin…moreSomeone on your alumni listserve accidentally hits "Reply All" in response to a mass email. Someone else hits "Reply All" to reprimand them for hitting "Reply All"—and so it begins. (less)

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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Will Dowd I would go to Middle-Earth, get Tom Bombadil in a headlock, and find out why the hell he's in this story.…moreI would go to Middle-Earth, get Tom Bombadil in a headlock, and find out why the hell he's in this story.(less)

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