Alex Cothren is a lecturer in creative writing at Flinders University. He has won the Carmel Bird, William van Dyke, Griffith Review Emerging Voices and Peter Carey awards for short fiction. He has had writing published in Meanjin, Island, Overland, Griffith Review and Australian Book Review. His debut collection, Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere, is out through Pink Shorts Press. He was born in the Pacific Northwest, but now lives on beautiful Kaurna Yerta with his wife Maria and son Julio.
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