THINGS STRANGE AND UNGUESSABLE: READINGS & GUESTS

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INSTRUCTOR: ALEX DAWSON

Dawson is full time faculty at Rutgers University, where he teaches creative writing (with a focus on fantasy, horror, and weird fiction) and curates/hosts "Inside the Writers House," a weekly video chat with authors from all over the world. He also leads an extracurricular, winter break, adventure retreat called Winter is Here! in which participants write/workshop fantasy fiction in evocative locales (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Iceland, Switzerland), as well as ghost story weekends throughout the year, in which participants write/workshop tales of fear and trembling in haunted, stateside towns (Harpers Ferry, North Bennington, Salem). His forthcoming novel, Welcome to White Hart, has been called "magical and masterful" (Lev Grossman, The Magicians) and "a work of wizardry" (Idra Novey, Those Who Knew). Samantha Hunt (Mr. Splitfoot) called it a "wonder" and said it was "impossible not to be amazed," and Kevin Wilson (Nothing to See Here) said "in a perfect world, this would be the story we told our loved ones at Christmas." His bluegrass Jersey Devil musical, The Devil & Daisy Dirt is currently touring. He's a certified international tour guide, a licensed Central Park carriage driver, and the creator/owner of The Rac-On-Tour (get it?), a mobile bookstore/cabinet of wonder built on the back of a '53 International flatbed farm truck. He's been a bartender/bouncer in some of the roughest gutbuckets in NJ and has ridden a motorcycle for forty years.

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READINGS & GUESTS