Neil’s stories and poems have appeared in print and online, including “Handgun Wedding,” which The  North Coast Journal voted its best flash fiction in 2009. Fithian Press published his collection of 52  stories, Flashes of Lightning, in 2016. Neil earned M.A. degrees in Teaching Writing and in  Counseling Psychology from Humboldt State University, and a B.A. in English from St. Bonaventure  University. He worked a combined 41 years as a substance abuse counselor, college instructor and  sports writer. Neil hails from New York City, and lives with his wife and their three-legged pit bull on  Northern California’s redwood coast.

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