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Alex M. Pruteanu

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in Bucharest, Romania

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http://swine.wordpress.com

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Since emigrating to the United States from Romania in 1980, Alex M. Pruteanu has worked as a laborer, movie projectionist, record store clerk, journalist, television news director, freelance writer, and editor. He is the author of novella Short Lean Cuts, (self-released, 2011) the short story collection, Gears, (Independent Talent Group, Inc., 2013) and novel The Sun Eaters. (Cervena Barva Press, 2018). His forthcoming short story collection is called The Imagination of the State (Independent Talent Group, Inc.), and it's scheduled to be published in early summer of 2018.

His writing has appeared in NY Arts Magazine, Guernica, [PANK], Connotation Press, FRIGG, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and many others. ...more

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There is a photo of a lanky but well-fed kid leaning against the brick fence encircling the perimeter of Ernest Hemingway’s square, yellow “little house” on Olivia Street in Key West. He has one leg bent up behind him, foot on the face of the wall, buttressing himself somewhat disrespectfully but not intending to be […]

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