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In Knuckle Boy, Dawn Newton presents nine stories in which protagonists grapple with wounded creatures-insects, animals, and humans-leaning heavily on backyard habitats and quotidian problems that nonetheless resonate. ""The Derailment of the Mikado"" presents the way in which an old train museum highlights transportation methods from the past and simultaneously serves a young child and his divorcing parents. In the title story ""Knuckle Boy,"" a family finds that their vacation home brings with it the attention of a young man in search of a new place to visit. In ""Vital Activity,"" an exterminator has an ambiguous encounter with a young housewife trying to solve a pest problem.

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Dawn Newton has published fiction, poetry, and essays in Gargoyle, The Baltimore Review, Clackamas Literary Review, The South Carolina Review, and The Carolina Quarterly, among others. She received her M.A. in Fiction Writing from The Johns Hopkins University, studying with John Barth. Over the years, she has taught writing and literature to students of all ages in both Virginia and Michigan. Dawn was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer in November of 2012, and in 2019 published a memoir, Winded, about her experience parenting with cancer. In 2021, she published a novel, The Remnants of Summer, exploring the impact of a child's death on a midwestern family. Knuckle Boy is Dawn's first published collection of short stories.

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