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Nels Hanson grew up on a small farm south of Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley of California, before there was smog and each day the High Sierras appeared within a hand’s reach at the end of Mountain View Avenue. He earned degrees from UC Santa Cruz and the U of Montana and has worked as a farmer, teacher and contract writer/editor. His fiction received the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award and Pushcart Prize nominations in 2010, 12, and 2014. Stories have appeared in Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, Southeast Review and other journals, and poems in Word Riot, Oklahoma Review, Pacific Review and other magazines. Poems were nominated for 2014 Pushcart Prizes and awarded the Sharkpack Review Annual's 2014 Prospero Prize. |