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SF Covell

SF Covell has been writing fiction and non-fiction since he was 12. Published works include Walls 1: The Beginning, Gatsby’s Revenge (a Fan Fiction Sequel to The Great Gatsby), “Running Drugs to Romania,” and “Devil with a Bad Haircut: Postmodern Villainy Rides the Range in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.” He grew up in Westport, Connecticut; attended a boarding school in St. Louis, Missouri, went to five colleges in three states; backpacked Mt. Harvard in Colorado; worked in construction on a small island outside of Seattle, with a waterbed wholesaler in Denver, in the restaurant business in three states, as a production assistant in Hollywood; ran a production catering company in Los Angeles where he got to work with Smoky Robinson, Bob Seeger, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stevie Wonder, Rick James, Robert Englund, Vanna White, U2, and more; joined a Swiss relief convoy taking medication to war-torn Romania, sailed the Greek isles and the Long Island Sound, swam in the Danube, got drunk on the Eiffel Tower, walked a 100 miles in New York City, got arrested in Pasadena, received a Masters in English from Cal State Northridge in California, and taught writing, literature and film at Antelope Valley College as a tenured professor. He has been married to an amazing woman for 28 years, and has two equally amazing children in their 20’s and a large German Shepherd mixed breed (the model for DumDum).