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Dave Mainelli

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In 2012, Dave came down with a serious illness and reestablished some priorities in his life. Music and writing came to the forefront and have remained there since. He’s a graduate of the University of Nebraska MFA in Fiction and a singing/songwriting member of Bazile Mills. He’s also owned restaurants for over 25 years and has traveled around the world as a business consultant where he enjoyed more of the human experience. He now teaches writing at Iowa Western and Wayne State College. He was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska.

How to Be Lonely is his first book of short stories.

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Dave Mainelli's Blog: Short Story Collection released

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