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Doug Crandell is the author of Pig Boy's Wicked Bird: A Memoir, which has been selected as a Quality Paperback Book Club pick. His short stories and essays have appeared in The SUN, Smithsonian Magazine, Indiana Review, Nebraska Review, Hawaii Review, and in other journals and magazines. A regular contributor to the highly acclaimed magazine, Glimmer Train, five of his short stories have or will appear there.


He has won grants and fellowship competitions from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation, the Hohenberg Foundation, Night Train, River Oak Arts, and the Missouri Review. Booker Prize Winner, Peter Carey, chose Crandell's story, Even if He is a Slave, for the River City Award in Fiction.

- Sherwood Anderson Fellowship Announcement from Poets & Writers Magazine
- Hohenberg Foundation Announcement from Poets & Writers Magazine

His short stories have been anthologized in Mother Knows: 24 Tales of Motherhood (Simon & Schuster, 2004) and in Stories From the Blue Moon Café: An Anthology of Southern Writers (MacAdam/Cage, 2004). An essay about being a teenager will be published in When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely Surviving High School) published by Simon and Schuster/Free Press in spring 2007.

Doug has taught at the Georgia Writers Association and the Midwest Writers Workshop, and has read his work at North Carolina Writer's Network. He was also a feature author at the Midwest Literary Festival in Chicago. In 2005, Doug was awarded the Goldfarb Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts at Mt. San Angelo. His second book, The All-American Industrial Motel: A Memoir was published Spring 2007. Virgin Books published his debut novel titled The Flawless Skin of Ugly People later in 2007. Doug's second novel on Virgin Books, Hairdos of the Mildly Depressed, is set to be published in July 2008.

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