RANDALL BROWN

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Randall Brown is the author of the award-winning flash fiction collection Mad to Live (Flume Press 2008). He teaches at Saint Joseph's University and Rosemont College, and holds an MFA from Vermont College and a BA from Tufts University—along with an M.Ed. and a B.S. in Education. Over two-hundred poems, essays, and short fiction pieces have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous literary journals, including Cream City Review, Gargoyle, Quick Fiction, Hunger Mountain, Connecticut Review, Saint Ann's Review, Evansville Review, Laurel Review, Dalhousie Review, Cairn, upstreet, Clackamas Literary Review, Vestal Review, Stand Magazine, and others. His essay on (very) short fiction will be appearing in the forthcoming anthology The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field (Rose Metal Press 2009). As Lead Editor with SmokeLong Quarterly, he has had the pleasure of reading thousands of flash submissions each year and publishing short shorts by Dan Chaon, Steve Almond, Stuart Dybek, Sherrie Flick, Dorianne Laux, Robert Shapard, Melanie Rae Thon, and many other exceptional writers. He's presented nationally for NSCI in Phoenix and Las Vegas. At the Highland Park Literary Festival, he presented workshops along with Billy Collins, Anchee Min, Kaye Gibbons, Christina Henriquez, Will Clarke, and a host of talented writers and teachers. Also, he's been the featured author and/or presenter at a number of readings and conferences in both New York City and Philadelphia.