Richard Duggin
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Richard Duggin was born and raised in New England and lives with his wife Cynthia in Omaha, where he has taught fiction writing at UNO for more than 50 years. He is founder of the UNO Writer’s Workshop and of the University of Nebraska MFA in Writing, a low-residency two-year graduate program. Duggin’s published work includes two books of fiction, The Music Box Treaty and Why Won’t You Talk To Me?, as well as short stories which have appeared in such periodicals as American Literary Journal, Beloit Fiction Journal, Laurel Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Sun, Playboy, and elsewhere. His work has been cited by Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Playboy Magazine Best Fiction. He has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Merit Awards, and he has been a resident in the artist’s retreats at Ragdale, Yaddo and the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.Education
BA, University of New HampshireMFA, University of Iowa
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Biography
Richard Duggin was born and raised in New England and lives with his wife Cynthia in Omaha, where he has taught fiction writing at UNO for more than 50 years. He is founder of the UNO Writer’s Workshop and of the University of Nebraska MFA in Writing, a low-residency two-year graduate program. Duggin’s published work includes two books of fiction, The Music Box Treaty and Why Won’t You Talk To Me?, as well as short stories which have appeared in such periodicals as American Literary Journal, Beloit Fiction Journal, Laurel Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Sun, Playboy, and elsewhere. His work has been cited by Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Playboy Magazine Best Fiction. He has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Merit Awards, and he has been a resident in the artist’s retreats at Ragdale, Yaddo and the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.Education
BA, University of New HampshireMFA, University of Iowa