Riley Gillan is a creative nonfiction writer from Chicago, Illinois. He is a second-year MFA candidate studying nonfiction and forestry at the University of Montana-Missoula, where he received the Truman Capote Scholarship. Gillan is a contributing blogger for "The MFA Years" and teaching resident at Arrowmont School of Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN. His work has appeared in Peal Magazine, Canvas, Laurel, and elsewhere.
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