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Stacy Brewster is a fiction writer, poet, and screenwriter. Born in Los Angeles and raised both there and in the San Francisco Bay Area, he studied filmmaking in New York and has since worked in television, independent film, advertising, publishing, politics, and public service. His fiction and poetry have appeared in New South, The Madison Review, Plentitude, and The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, among numerous others. He was awarded the 2019 Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship in Drama for his teleplay Gargoyles & Dandelions, an as-yet-unproduced one-hour queer noir series set in LOs Angeles in the late 1940s.Due to chronic neuropathy, Stacy uses assistive dictation software to aid him in writing. He has facilitated writing workshops for seniors and people with disabilities and also lectured on the intersection of disability and creative practice. He works as a copy editor in Portland, Oregon and lives there with his partner (now husband) of nearly two decades, Jonathan, and their dog Lucinda. This is his first book.