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Richard Dokey is an author and winner of the Lawrence Foundation Prize (Michigan Quarterly Review, University of Michigan), The Glick Prize (South Dakota Review, University of South Dakota), and The Hoepfner Award (Southern Humanities Review, Auburn University). His stories have been cited in Best American Short Stories and Best of the West. Dokey's short fiction has been included in many general collections and two of his plays, "Craps" and "Funeral", have both seen productions (a manuscript of "Funeral" can be found in this manuscript collection). For ten years he wrote a weekly human-interest column for the Stockton Record and has published short story collections and novels with the University of Missouri Press and the Seven Buffaloes Press, among others.