Daniel Mueller has authored two collections of short fiction, How Animals Mate (Overlook Press, 1999), winner of the Sewanee Fiction Prize, and Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey (Outpost 19 Books, 2013). He is currently at work on a memoir tentatively titled This Book Belongs to Me. He teaches on the permanent faculties of University of New Mexico's Creative Writing Program and the Low-Residency MFA Program at Queens University of Charlotte.

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