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Poet, prose poet, playwright, and micro fiction author PAUL DICKEY
holds a Master of Arts degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, in the
History and Philosophy of Science and a BA from Wichita State University. In
the 1970s, he studied in the Creative Writing program at Wichita State.
During that time,
his poetry appeared in Nimrod (University of Tulsa), Karamu
(Eastern Illinois University), Quartet (Texas A&M University), and
Kansas Quarterly (Kansas State University). He re-located from
Wichita, KS to Omaha in 1986. In Omaha, he has been employed by Mutual of
Omaha and Ameritrade Holding, Inc. and is now retired from his career in data
processing and management. These days besides writing, Dickey teaches philosophy at
Metropolitan Community College and is a co-editor of MCC’s student literary
magazine. After taking a long hiatus from publishing his work, Dickey started
to do so again in 2003. His poetry and fiction has now appeared in journals
such as Rattle, Mid-American Review, Our Stories,
Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, Southern Poetry Review, Cider Press
Review, Free Lunch and Crab Orchard Review. Additional work is
online. In all, Dickey has published in nearly 100 literary journals.
A chapbook What Wisconsin Took was published in 2006. His first
full-length book of poetry, They Say
This Is How Death Came Into the World, is being published by Mayapple
Press in January, 2011. In the
last few years, Dickey has developed an interest in theatre and has written
several one-act plays and one full-length, The Good News According to
St. Dude. He
is married and has three adult children. Dickey’s one grandson and one
granddaughter are living the free and easy life in Racine, Wisconsin.
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