Biography Robert Abel is a fiction writer, English teacher and journalist. He has published three novels and three collections of stories and numerous articles in magazines and newspapers. His writing awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Robert Abel's website: www.roberthabel.com. To order his most recent novel, Riding the Tiger, click here. Links to the contributor's work in Frigate Issue #3 ESSAY/FEATURES: VIEWS "An Immodest Proposal"

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