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| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States |
| Introduction | Raymond Cothern studied writing at LSU under Walker Percy and Vance Bourjaily. He is winner of both the Deep South Writers Conference and the St. Tammany National One-Act Play Festival. Two of his plays have been produced in New York City, The Long Hymn of Dilemma as part of the DTE New Play Festival, and Fat Girl From Texas in the Distilled Theatre Company Short Play Festival. He was also a 2011 semi-finalist in the Playwrights First Award sponsored by the National Arts Club of New York City and a finalist in the 5th Annual Play Tour sponsored by cARTel Collaborative Arts Los Angeles. His fiction, poetry, and essays have been published in North American Review, Manchac, Intro 8, Two Thirds North, American Antheneum, Burlesque, EWR: Short Stories, Run to the Roundhouse, Nellie, and in the book Meanwhile Back at the Café Du Monde. He recently completed work on a novel, The Pallbearer’s Social, and on a memoir, Swimming Underwater, about growing up in Louisiana and framed by the story of the devastating effects of viral encephalitis on his daughter and of her triumph in achieving a normal life. |
| Favorite movies | Tom Jones, Bonnie and Clyde, The Searchers, Dr. Strangelove, Breaking the Waves, Goodfellas, Bambi Meets Godzilla |
| Favorite music | Dylan, The Beatles, Marc Cohn, Jackson Browne, Paul Simon, Norah Jones, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Dave Matthews, Sinatra |
| Favorite books | Authors: Junot Diaz, Geraldine Books, Mary Karr, Alan Furst, James Crumley, James Lee Burke, Alice McDermott, Capote, Philip Caputo |