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Recipient of a Wallace Stegner and NEA Creative Writing Fellowships, Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of two collections of poetry, Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and The Opposite of Work (2nd Edition, Doubleback Books). In 2015 his short story "Taylor Swift" won the Barthelme Prize for short fiction, and his story "Goodwill" was picked as one of the Wigleaf Top Fifty Very Short Fictions of 2018. His most recent book, Animal Children, a collection of prose poems and micro-fiction, was published by Nomadic Press in 2020. He teaches writing and literature at California College of the Arts. ...more

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	Shy Green Fields 4.65 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2007 — 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
	Eleven Eleven #5 4.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2008	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
	Book of Days, Pt 1: Sorcery. February 1- May 31, 2007 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 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
	Eleven Eleven #8 by Hugh Behm-Steinberg (Goodreads Author) (Editor), James Scott (Contributor) 4.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2007	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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message 8: by Essi

Jul 24, 2010 07:44AM

Hello my dear Hugh
I am very proud
This is my pleasure
Thank you for add me as your friends.
It`s my honor to be in your friends list.
Best regard

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message 7: by Leaning-Good (last edited Jun 26, 2010 05:30PM)

Jun 25, 2010 02:01AM

I read the comment below and find that the last comment was posted on June, 16,2008.

That's a great chance for me, to be the first one of the last 2 year, to post a comment on your profile, Hugh !

I agree with Bill, that the cover of your book "Shy Green Fields" is great, hope you will be a great author all of world's life.

Warm Regards,
:D
Suka

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message 6: by Amber

Jun 16, 2008 12:36PM

THANK YOU for adding me as a friend. I look forward to reading your work. I wish you much success! =)

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message 5: by W.B.

Feb 15, 2008 11:59AM

Hugh, I love the cover of Shy Green Fields...that's quite fuzzily beautiful...

Then someone said you write these 7 line poems...i love short poems done well...

Now I am very curious...

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message 4: by Jeremy

Jan 23, 2008 11:47PM

I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me yesterday. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy

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message 3: by Jeremy

Jan 01, 2008 01:50PM

Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

-Jeremy :)

P.S.—I’m currently offering autographed/personally-inscribed copies of my novel, Vacation, with free shipping for those in the US. If there’s anything you could do to help me spread the word about this, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to click here for details:
http://hauntedhousedressing.com/signe...

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message 2: by Jeremy

Dec 24, 2007 01:21AM

Hi Hugh!

Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.

-Jeremy :)

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message 1: by Jeremy (last edited Aug 25, 2016 02:14PM)

Dec 09, 2007 02:32AM

Hi Hugh!

If you don't mind sharing--I was wondering, what's your favorite novel of all time?

Here’s wishing you a fantastic day filled with fabulous friendships, fanciful festivities, and frolicking phantom footstools.

-Jeremy :)

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