power of perception writers with William Luvaas

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            William Luvaas has published two previous novels, The Seductions of Natalie Bach (Little, Brown & Foreverland Press) and Going Under (Putnam & Foreverland Press), and two story collections, A Working Man’s Apocrypha (Univ. Okla. Press) and Ashes Rain Down: A Story Cycle (Spuyten Duyvil).  Beneath The Coyote Hills, a novel, is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil Press in September, 2016, and Welcome To Saint Angel comes out with Anaphora Literary Press in 2017.  His essays, articles and short stories have appeared in dozens of publications, including The American Fiction Anthology, Antioch Review, Confronta­tion, Epiphany, Glimmer Train, Grain Mag., North American Review, Short Story, Stand Mag., The Sun, Texas Review, The Village Voice and The Washington Post Book World.  He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Fiction.  His stories have won Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open Con­test, The Ledge Magazine's Fiction Awards Competition and Fiction Network's 2nd National Fiction Competition.  Ashes Rain Down was The Huffington Post’s Book of the Year and a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Luvaas has taught creative writing at San Diego State University, The Univ. of California, Riverside and The Writer’s Voice in New York, and has worked as a carpenter, freelance journalist, craftsman and writer-in-residence in New York City.