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 D. G. Myers is the author of "The Elephants Teach" (Chicago) and co-editor (with Paul M. Hedeen) of "Unrelenting Readers" (Story Line).

Educated in Riverside, Myers earned his degrees from

-- the University of California/Santa Cruz, where he founded the literary magazine "Quarry" (later "Quarry West") with Raymond Carver.

-- Washington University in St. Louis, where he wrote a MA dissertation on Stanley Elkin under Stanley Elkin.

-- and Northwestern University, where he held the TriQuarterlyFellowship and studied under Gerald Graff and Joseph Epstein.