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CurrentRon L. Dowell holds two Master's degrees from California State University Long Beach. In June 2017, he received the UCLA Certificate in Fiction Writing. His short stories have appeared in Oyster Rivers Pages, Moon Magazine, Unlikely Stories, Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine #11, Watermelanian Magazine, The Fear of Monkeys, Writers Resist, Baby Boomers Plus 2018, The Hamilton Stone Review, Tulip Tree Review, Perceptions Magazine, Pennsylvania English, and The Bombay Review. His poetry resides in Penumbra, Writers Resist, Oyster Rivers Pages, The Wax Paper, North Dakota Quarterly Review, Kallisto Gaia Press, The Penmen Review, Packingtown Review Journal, and The Poeming Pigeon. He's a 2018 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow. His collection Crooked Out of Compton, available soon, is a semi-finalist for the Chestnut Review Stubborn Artists Contest and a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press 2020 Big Moose Prize. He connects gritty narratives showing how people find hope and even joy in lives where basic needs are hard to meet. Ron writes about a suite of sociopolitical realities in an honest, thoughtful way—a way that challenges stereotypes and humanizes people.
