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Dalton was born in South Carolina, moved to Ohio
for high school and college at Kent State, then
came back to the South for an MFA at the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro. Over the years,
she has sold cameras, ladies shoes, water filters,
antiques, her wedding dress and an old van. She's
worked as a waiter, bartender, fundraiser, teacher,
freelance writer and spindoctor, all of which continue to be a good
source of material. Her
work has appeared in anthologies such as Sex
and Sensibility and American
Girls out
on the Town,
and in a variety of literary magazines, including One
Story, Glimmer
Train, StoryQuarterly, Indiana
Review, ACM (Another
Chicago Magazine), and The
Kenyon Review.
She won the Pearl magazine
2002 Fiction Prize for her short story, "Back on Earth." Stories
from her collection, Bulletproof
Girl, have been anthologized in Glimmer
Train's Where
Love is Found: 24 Tales of Connection and
in Hourglass Books' forthcoming Peculiar
Pilgrims. Her
story, The Music Your Never Hear is included
in New
Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2006.
She lives in
Greensboro
with her
husband and
two young
daughters.
Dalton would like to think she's funny,
but her brother, Ryan Dalton, actually is. Visit ryandalton.net or
find him on myspace.com/ryandaltoncomedy. |
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