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John Dalton

M.F.A. University of Iowa
B.A. University of Missouri-St. Louis

John Dalton is the author of the novel, Heaven Lake, published by Scribner, and the winner of the Barnes and Noble 2004 Discover Award in fiction and the Sue Kaufman Prize for best first fiction of 2004 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  John's short fiction has appeared in Western Humanities Review, Story, and Alaska Quarterly Review. He is an Assistant Professor in the MFA writing program at the University of Missouri - St. Louis.  John is currently at work on a second novel called The Inverted Forest. .