The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory.—T.S. Eliot

Don Quixote in His Study (WFL Price 1857)

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I hold a Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, where I specialized in creative writing and American literature. My book, The Walmart Book of the Dead, won the 2017 Vine Leaves Press Vignette Award and was a finalist in the fantasy category for the 2017 Foreword Book of the Year. I’m writing a novella about the Salem Witch Trials. Learn more about me here.

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to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory.--T.S. Eliot