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Rafe Posey

Rafe Posey
Rafe Posey earned his MFA from the University of Baltimore and currently teaches writing, English, and humanities courses at a maximum security prison in Maryland. His short-story collection, The Book of Broken Hymns, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. The Stars We Share is his debut novel.


How Writing a Novel Is Like Decrypting a Cipher

Rafe Posey on Breaking Open the Kernel of an Idea
May 21, 2021  By Rafe Posey
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