Rob Woodard is a
novelist
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,
poet
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and
painter
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who lives in
Long Beach, California
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Incorporate ...
. In addition to his "print" books, his work has also appeared on several internet-based literary journals, including Scotland's ''Laura Hird's'' website, England's ''Scarecrow'', Ireland's ''Dogmatika'' and the UK's ''
The Guardian
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''.
Selected works
* ''Edgewater: Poems 1992-2009'' (
Burning Shore Press Established in 2005, Burning Shore Press is a publisher of serious "underground" literature and is based in Long Beach, California. It has thus far published the novel ''Heaping Stones'', by Rob Woodard, and the play ''Don Giovanni'', by Dan Fante, ...
, 2012)
* ''Heaping Stones'' (
Burning Shore Press Established in 2005, Burning Shore Press is a publisher of serious "underground" literature and is based in Long Beach, California. It has thus far published the novel ''Heaping Stones'', by Rob Woodard, and the play ''Don Giovanni'', by Dan Fante, ...
, 2005)
Two other books, ''What Love Is'' (a novel) and ''King Of Long Beach'' (poems) wer
rumoredto be in the works in 2007/2008 but have not yet been published.
References
External links
Blog page of Rob Woodardfor ''
The Guardian
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''
Jim Hall interviews Rob Woodard Burning Shore Press Rob Woodard's publisher
Scarecrow Magazine Featuring Works by Rob Woodard and other Burning Shore Press Authors
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21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American male writers