Frank Haberle's debut story collection, Shufflers, about minimum wage transients during the Reagan era, will be coming on September 1, 2021 from Flexible Press - https://www.flexiblepub.com/shufflers and can be pre-ordered now through www.indiebound.org and other outlets.

His short stories have won awards from Pen Parentis (2011), Beautiful Loser Magazine (2017) the Sustainable Arts Foundation (2013) and the Rose Warner Prize for Fiction (2021) and appeared in magazines including Stockholm Literary Review, Necessary Fiction, the Adirondack Review, Smokelong Quarterly and the Baltimore Review.

Frank works as a nonprofit administrator, volunteers as a workshop leader with the NY Writers Coalition and the Creative Center at University Settlement; he lives with his wife and three children in Brooklyn, New York.

In this episode, we talk about how Frank started writing, his adventures doing various jobs across the US in his younger years, how he came back to writing, and how he came to create his book. Frank's full of fun and interesting stories and I really enjoyed our conversation.

Frank can be reached via his website, https://frankhaberle.com, and via email at frankhaberle@aol.com.

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