 Donald Ray Pollock was born in 1954 and grew up in
southern Ohio, in a holler named Knockemstiff. He dropped
out of high school at seventeen to work in a meatpacking
plant, and then spent thirty-two years employed in a paper
mill in Chillicothe, Ohio. Currently, he is a graduate
student in the MFA program at Ohio State University and still lives in Chillicothe with his wife, Patsy, a high school English teacher. He hopes to someday teach fiction writing. His work has
appeared in, or is forthcoming in The New York Times, Third Coast, The Journal, Sou’wester, Chiron Review, River Styx, Boulevard, Folio, and The Berkeley Fiction Review.
He is currently at work on a novel set in 1965, about
a serial killer named Arvin Eugene Russell.
Don's Blog, "Notes from the Holler" 
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