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Garrett grew up on a small farm in Michigan and earned his B.A. in Creative Writing from Grand Valley State University.

In 2012, he co-founded Squalorly, a digital literary journal of the Midwest and served as its nonfiction editor until 2014.

In 2016, founded Orson’s Publishing in 2016, a micro press and served as the press’s sole editor (and designer, and publicist, among other roles) until its closure in 2020, publishing four book-length works by new and emerging authors.

He also founded Orson’s Review in 2017, a digital literary journal that served as a companion to its parent press, publishing fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and photography. He served as the sole editor of Orson’s Review as well, and is proud to have helped bring th
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We stood shapeless in front of the counter and he didn’t like that. Seconds after storming through the entrance, he raised his arms at the ten of us and punctured the silence of the last five minutes: “I know we’re in Seattle and lines don’t matter here but somebody tell me where the hell I'm supposed to stand.”

He was six-feet-tall, and narrow, w

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And in the Dark They Are Born by Garrett Francis
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