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Bernie Hafeli

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in Detroit, MI, The United States

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Fiction

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February 2013

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Bernie Hafeli graduated from the University of Michigan in 1972. In 2006 he received his MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. In between he wrote advertising, so you might say he’s been creating fiction all his life. In addition to Bear Season (Broken Bird Press, 2013), he’s published eight short stories and one poem in literary journals. “What stands out for me—both in how I became a writer and in how I became published writer—is how a seemingly bad experience (losing a job, having a novel rejected, losing an agent) paved the way for an extremely good experience. I’m sure this happens all the time, but in my life before fiction writing I rarely, if ever, noticed it. Now I’m on the lookout all the time. To paraphrase Henry J ...more

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Turning readers into writers

There are plenty of excellent books to help would-be writers become actual writers, and to help actual writers become better writers in regard to craft—Charles Baxter's books, Janet Burroway's, Julie Checkoway's, Catherine Brady's "Story Logic and the Craft of Fiction" immediately spring to mind—but none is better able to send the neophyte off on the trail of her or his first short story than Madi Read more of this blog post »

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