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Andrew Gudgel's Writing Home Page
To e-mail me, take "andy" and my last name (which is at the top of the page) and mash them into one word. Then add an "at" sign, and put all that to the left of gmail.com. |
Who I am and what I doI started writing in high school--poems, stories, you name it. My Senior year, my school offered an experimental Chinese language class, and I found that I liked it enough to major in Classical Chinese in college. I even spent a year at a Chinese University in the late 1980's. Classical Chinese opened up a whole new world of literature--ancient poetry forms, essays, and sprawling, baroque novels. I came back from China even more pumped up to be a writer. Then I remembered I had a bunch of student loans. So I joined the Army. "I'll pay off my loans then get out," I thought at the time. I spent the next twelve years bouncing around the planet: Iraq (the first go-'round), Somalia, Bangladesh. Then I discovered Embassy Duty, and worked in China, Poland, Kenya, and Tanzania. Coming back to the US after being away for so long meant getting used to a whole new foreign country. I got out of the Army in 2002, and went back to my first love, writing. I now make a living as a freelance writer. I'll write anything: fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Even fortune-cookie fortunes. I also do the occasional Chinese-English translation. |
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