Randal Eldon Greene is the author of the collection Blabber, Chat, Shouting Match: 50 Dialogue-Only Fictions (corona\samizdat) and the novella Descriptions of Heaven (Harvard Square Editions).
A native of the northern plains, Randal grew up in small-town Nebraska and later attended the University of South Dakota where he earned his Bachelor’s in English and Anthropology. His first four short story publications all appeared in 2010. His fiction and other writing has since found homes in various publications around the world.
Randal lives with his wife and daughter in eastern Iowa.
Randal has been active in the literary scene since 2004, reading for publications (VLP Magazine, South Dakota Review, Heart & Mind Zine), emceeing for official poetry slams, conducting writing workshops, and running writers organizations (Vermillion Writers Guild, Literary Fiction Writers, Tri-State Writers). He produced an anthology album of spoken-word poetry (Microwave Souls), conducted interviews for Hello, Author, and wrote a readers theater play for an ELL middle school production.
Randal has worked in the hospitality industry since 2014. His schedule of two 16-hour shifts and a single 8-hour evening shift gave him time to focus on learning craft. In 2021 this schedule allowed him to become a fulltime dad, leaving him more sporadic and exhausted late-night hours for writing. After close to five incredible years of taking care of his daughter during the day, Randal is back to writing fulltime and hopes to finish his next book soon.
Nearly all of Randal’s manuscripts are written longhand. His preference is ink on paper. He likes to use an F-301 Zebra Pen to write on standard blank printer paper. He has never used AI to brainstorm, write, or edited his work; nor does he trust the word-guessing machine for anything he needs to look up. The only writing software he uses for transcribing and editing his drafts is an old, reliable 2007 MS Word program.
His current schedule allows him to write from 9am to 3pm Monday through Thursday and Friday 9am to 1pm. There are several manuscripts on Randal’s desk at present—some more complete than others—including two short story collections, a novella he’s expanding into a novel, a poetry chapbook, and a novel which is in the revision stages.
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