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An aspiring writer for three of his four decades on the planet, Storey Clayton recently earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at West Virginia University (May 2021). He’s worked as a youth counselor, debate coach, strategic analyst, development director, rideshare driver, and poker player. His nonfiction has appeared in more than twenty literary journals, including Southeast Review, upstreet, Pleiades, Typehouse Literary Magazine, and Blue Earth Review. His coming-of-age novel "Loosely Based" was published in 2003. He has an essay in the recently published "Hindsight" anthology (ed. Steve Fowler) about the 2020 pandemic. ...more

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Loosely Based: A Novel

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Long Bright River

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Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

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H is for Hawk

by Helen Macdonald

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A love letter to books from a bookstore owner and author, thinly disguised as an examination of 2020. This was consistently enjoyable throughout, but left me feeling a touch empty at the end, which I'm pretty sure was the point. Life doesn't come wit ...more
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