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Steven Wingate's short story collection Wifeshopping won the 2007 Bakeless Prize for Fiction from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and was released for publication this month by Houghton Mifflin. He spends his analog time in Colorado and his digital time at www.stevenwingate.com.

One on One

Xujun Eberlein

Issue No. 133 ~ June, 2008

"...when I wrote fiction I was often unconscious about which part was from memory and which from imagination. For nonfiction, I tended to double check my memory, and I often turned to other sources to verify my memory. But if I found a conflict between a second source and my own memory, I might believe in myself more."