Rob Woodard is a

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

and

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who lives in

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. 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 ''

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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'' (

, 2005) Two other books, ''What Love Is'' (a novel) and ''King Of Long Beach'' (poems) wer
rumored
to be in the works in 2007/2008 but have not yet been published.

References

External links

Blog page of Rob Woodard
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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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