Chad Fore is a Chicano writer whose work has appeared in The Paris Review, Ninth Letter, The Hopkins Review, Mid-American Review, the minnesota review, among others. He has been a finalist for the Iowa Review Award in fiction, Indiana Review Fiction Prize, Bellingham Review Tobias Wolff Fiction Award, and Hidden River Arts Hawk Mountain Short Story Collection Award. His novella, Love Child, was a finalist for the Texas Review Press Clay Reynolds Novella Prize. His work centers on the rural Southern California community where his family has lived since they migrated from Mexico in the early 1900s. A graduate of Stanford University, he worked as an investment banker before becoming a teacher.

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Novel forthcoming from Henry Holt...

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Paris Review Interview here...

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Two sons: Joaquin and Gabriel...

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Married to the amazing writer, Kathleen McNamara (Gold in the Furnace, coming soon!)

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First-gen college grad interested in any professional/creative ideas...