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Robert L. Shuster

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Robert L. Shuster's novel To Zenzi is a four-time award-winner: the 2022 McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize, a 2021 Foreword Indie Gold Award, the 2019 AWP Prize for the Novel, and a James Jones First Novel Fellowship.

His short fiction has appeared in North American Review, Witness, The Mississippi Review, Stone Canoe, and War, Literature, & the Arts (among other publications), and in Micro Fiction (W.W. Norton) and Yellow Silk II (Warner Books). For a number of years, he wrote arts and culture pieces for The Village Voice. Raised in upstate New York and Massachusetts, and a graduate of M.I.T., he lives in Westchester County, NY. ...more

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	Micro Fiction: An Anthology of Fifty Really Short Stories by Jerome Stern, Robert L. Shuster (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.71 avg rating — 737 ratings — published 1996 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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To Zenzi wins another first-novel prize

I'm thrilled to report that my novel, To Zenzi, won the 2022 McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize ($3000) from the Writer's Center. An honor!

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