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Bill Cotter
W. Stone Cotter is a new talent in middle-grade fiction. He has previously published his essays and short fiction in The Believer, Lucky Peach, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s Quarterly, and The New York Times, and in 2013, he was a recipient of the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Austin, Texas.