Greg Shemkovitz

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Greg Shemkovitz

Greg Shemkovitz

Greg Shemkovitz is the author of the novel Lot Boy. His fiction has appeared in Foundling Review, Gihon River Review, the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Prick of the Spindle, and elsewhere. He teaches writing and literature at Elon University in North Carolina.

“Shemkovitz does for Buffalo what William Kennedy once did for Albany, and he does so with verve and charm and a gifted eye for the details of the extraordinary lives of ordinary people.”
— Jacob M. Appel, author of The Biology of Luck