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Brooks Rexroat

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Brooks Rexroat is a writer, teacher, and musician. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, he was a 2016-2017 Fulbright U.S. Scholar to the Russian Federation.

He teaches creative and professional writing and Brescia University in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Rexroat holds a bachelor of arts degree in print journalism from Morehead State University (Kentucky) and a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing (prose) from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

His stories and essays have appeared in such publications as Day One, The Prague Revue, The Montreal Review, The Cleveland Review, Weave Magazine,The Literary Bohemian, Midwestern Gothic, Matchbook Literary Magazine and Boston Literary Magazine.

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What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Brooks Rexroat I think the nicest thing about being a writer is simply the opportunity to cultivate imagination in a semi-productive fashion.

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Brooks Rexroat Thrift Store Coats came together over a long course of time: I finished up graduate school at Southern Illinois University with a handful of solid sto…moreThrift Store Coats came together over a long course of time: I finished up graduate school at Southern Illinois University with a handful of solid stories and I continued to produce numbers of short stories at a really quick clip in the years that followed, but it took a while to find a point around which a book might eventually coalesce. I think it was the writing and subsequent publication of Blood off Rusted Steel that gave the book a gathering theme, and I shuffled stories in and out of the lineup for a long while before finally settling on this group. During the process, each story came from a distinct moment, observation, or question, and the book as a whole came together after the independent stories.(less)

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	Wounds by Razel Jones (Goodreads Author), Daniel Abbott (Goodreads Author), Brooks Rexroat (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 82 ratings — 2 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
	Best of Ohio Short Stories: Volume 1 by Brad Pauquette (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark D. Baumgartner, Joseph Downing (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2013 — 2 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
	Thrift Store Coats 4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2018 — 2 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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	Alt Hist Issue 3 by Mark Lord (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Séamus Sweeney, Ian Sales 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 4 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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Dispatches From Siberia #51: On Dualities

Last weekend, I traveled to a memorial service that was simultaneously among the most beautiful and heartbreaking things I’ve encountered. Heartbreaking, of course, because of an untimely death. But beautiful in the way he was remembered and what that remembrance means.

The service honored a teacher and mentor. I won’t name him here because his closest loved ones are grieving deeply, and their grie