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-Doris Betts’ Fiction Prize Winning Author-
ROBERT WALLACE
BIOGRAPHY
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Robert Wallace has received a Writers’ Fellowship from the NC Arts Council.
He has published fiction in the Bryant Literary Review, the Raleigh News & Observer, and the International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies as well as in the anthology Racing Home: New Short Stories by Award Winning North Carolina Writers.
For five years he wrote a monthly column for the Raleigh News & Observer.
He has critiqued manuscripts for the North Carolina Writers’ Network for the past twenty years.
He is a two-time winner of the Doris Betts’ Fiction Prize.
Wallace’s novel A Hold on Time was published by Paper Journey Press in 2007.
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Wallace worked as a social worker for thirty-five years. He now coaches cross country and track for Carolina Friends School.
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He lives in Durham, North Carolina.