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J.D. Cortese

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J.D. Cortese is a scientist and educator by training, and a writer out of a passion for communication. He has written regularly for a widely-read scientific newspaper—The Scientist—and served as at-large editor for educational magazines and large publishing houses. Winner of awards for both science and teaching, he has received also the prestigious annual award of The Writers’ Workshop of Asheville for literary fiction.

After extensively pinning a world map, he and his itinerant wife have found a home in North Carolina’s Durham. His two children remain closer to New York, a city he misses as much as Buenos Aires, Shanghai, and Paris. All these places keep appearing in the dream worlds of his stories, as much in the now as in distant futures. ...more

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ALL MY STORIES ARE ABOUT TIME

,What if we are not the result of a linear past? ,Are both our future and past fixed?One way or another, I find myself picking a pen (or pencil) and writing about time. And make drawings connected with time, some of which would end up being plans for new writing.I have subtitled my recent novel, ,Fences of The Light, as “A novel about time.” That came to be because time isn’t in the main title, an Read more of this blog post »

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