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Marc Beaudin was born in Bay City, Michigan on Easter Sunday,
1968. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU) and has taught at SVSU, El Instituto
de Inglés Javier-McKeever in Chiapas, Mexico; Kirtland College in northern Michigan; and the First Ward Community Center in
Saginaw, Michigan. He has worked as a substitute teacher, a waiter, a park ranger, a photographer, a theater designer, a nature
director, an environmental canvasser, a cook, a tutor, a store clerk, a painter, a barista, a valet, a tree trimmer, an editor,
a professor, a bus driver, an actor, a pirate, and a montebank.
His poetry has appeared in various journals
and has been published in three chapbooks: When God Was a Child, The Lost Writings of Miscellaneous Jones, and Saginaw Songs. He also
writes plays, short stories, and essays. This is his first novel. He sometimes lives in Saginaw, Michigan (despite all the dioxin coming from Dow
Chemical, upriver in Midland) with his grandma's cactus and a cat who winks.
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