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Robert H. Abel, ** Stockwell Rd., N. Hadley, MA 01035-9644

Tel: 413-***-****; fax account 413-***-****. e

mail: ******.****@***-***.***

Fiction writer, writing teacher and journalist.

Publications:

Books: Riding a Tiger (novel, Asia 2000, Hong Kong, 1998); Ghost

Traps (stories, U. Georgia Press, 1991); Full-tilt Boogie (stories,

sponsored by Massachusetts Council on Arts and Humanities in

cooperation with Lynx House Press, 1989); The Progress of a Fire

(novel, Simon and Schuster, 1985); Freedom Dues, (novel, Dial Press,

1978); Skin and Bones (stories, U. Colorado Press, 1978);

Most recent stories: "A Steamy Story," www.longstoryshort.com

(April 2006); "The Vulgair Connection," forthcoming, North

American Review; "Surveying the Other," Full Circle Journal (Oct.

2003). www.fullcirclejrnl.com ;"Soft Targets," Massachusetts Review

(Fall 2003);"I Married a Monster and We Had Kids," Willow Springs #47

(Jan. 2001);"Woman Walking Backwards," Dim Sum #3 (May

2000);"Appendix Seven,", The Mind's Eye, Fall, 1999; "Mr. Nice

Guy, Clackamas Review (Spring 2000); Appendix

Seven, The Mind s Eye (Fall 1999); Song of

Heartbreak and Longing, Willow Springs (Jan. 1997); A

Visit from the Man in the Gray Suit, Steelhead Special (Summer

1996); One Up, in Robert Byrne, Ed., Byrne s Book of

Great Pool Stories (Harvest Books, 1995); Appetizer, in

several anthologies, including, Hanna and Cockerton, Eds., The Human

Project, Prentice-Hall, Canada, 1996); Men in E. Goodwin

et al., eds., This Wood Sang Out (Literacy Project, 1995); The

Loyal Wife, Manoa (1995); Gong Li Haunts My Dreams,

English Salon (Beijing, 1994); X, GlimmerTrain IX (Spring

1994) . . . . More than twenty other stories were published in

previous years.

Most recent journalism: "Thrown a Learning Curve" Hampshire Life

(Feb. 18,2000); "Back to Beijing," Hampshire Life (July 2, 1998);

"Hong Kong Jitters," Hampshire Life (March 1998); a regular column

appears in English Salon, a magazine published at Beijing Foreign

Studies University, Beijing, China. Features have also appeared in

University of Massachusetts' Massachusetts Magazine.

Special Awards:

Nominated for Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Presses

for two stories in 1994; Flannery O Connor Award for Short

Fiction, 1989 (for Ghost Traps, above); publication of Full-tilt

Boogie sponsored by Mass. Council on Arts,(1989); Second Prize, O.

Henry Festival Contest, 1987; National Endowment for the Arts

Creative Writing Fellowship, 1978.

Teaching Experience:

Gave lectures and a reading, taught workshops for Union Institute

and University/Vermont College MFA Program, Dec. 2005-June 2006.

Wrote lesson plans for the US Information Service s Project

ELLSA, (http://www.rdlthai.com/ellsa_index.html) and gave lectures

and workshops in four S. E. Asian countries on special topics in

American literature and the characteristics of literary English

(Summer-Fall 1999). Mount Holyoke College, visiting prof. of creative

writing, Fall, 1998; Beijing Foreign Studies University, Sept.-Jan.,

1997, Feb.-June, 1994; Trinity College, Hartford, visiting writer,

1994-1997; Beijing Normal University, Feb.-July, 1987.

I have also taught in several Oregon Writers Workshops,

Elderhostel programs, and continuing education programs at the

University of Massachusetts, among others.

I have also worked as a journalist in different venues, as the

fiction editor for Lynx House Press in the 1970s, and as an editorial

consultant for Asia 2000 (Hong Kong) in recent months.

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