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R.W.Wilson is an American writer and poet, currently in the beginning stages of his career. Although essentially unpublished, R.W.Wilson does have two collections of works available through Amazon.com's Kindle Store. He is currently working on getting his first full-length novel published.

Biography
R.W.Wilson was born in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA on June 14th, 1983. He lived in Bismarck until he was eighteen years old, when he moved to Morris, Minnesota to attend college at the University of Minnesota, Morris. He majored in English with a minor in History, but his primary focus was always Literature. Although The University of Minnesota, Morris, offered no focus on creative writing within the English department, Wilson took every opportunity available to pursue his interest in it, including participating in a collective directed study that did not previously exist in the curriculum. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in English in three years.

After graduating from his undergraduate coursework, R.W.Wilson proceeded immediately to graduate work at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. His focus still on the study of English, Wilson specialized primarily in multicultural and non-traditional Literature, specifically African-American and Native American Literature, as well as the study of Science Fiction and children's/young adult Literature. Although The University of St. Thomas' graduate English curriculum offered even less coursework specified toward creative writing, Wilson often experimented with using creative writing in place of traditional academic writing within his coursework. After two and a half years, Wilson graduated from the University of St. Thomas with a Master's Degree.

Since earning his Master's degree, Wilson was spent most of his time working on his writing. 

Works
Thus far in his fledgling career, R.W.Wilson has only two collections of work available to the public, both of which exist only in a digital version available through Amazon.com's Kindle Store. These two collections are "Seven Short Stories," a collection of short stories written throughout both his undergraduate and graduate schooling, and "Anapest Destiny," a collection of poetry all written in anapestic meter.

"Seven Short Stories" feature, naturally, seven short stories. These stories span a range of characters and settings, but most share a decidedly dark tone which seems to be a stylistic mainstay of Wilson's writing. The stories included are "The Crest of the Shornshire," "The Second Supernal Dichotomy," "A Fist Full of Sand," "The Unfortunate Prophecy," "The Jacob Eccles School for Unique Singers," "The Arbitrator," and "To Save a Nation." 

"Anapest Destiny" is a collection of twenty-eight poems of varying lengths and rhyme schemes, though all written in the anapestic meter. With the exception of four of the poems, a group referred to as the "Horseman Quatrains," the poems in the collection are neither thematically not plot-wise connected. The "Horsemen Quatrains" are a poetic sequence based on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse from the book of Revelation, each written from the point of view of a different horseman. The collection is arranged in essentially three tonal sections, although these are not demarcated within the book itself. The early poems in the collection have a typically dark tone and a predominately fantastical subject matter ranging from ghosts and vampires to the aforementioned biblical horsemen. The collection proceeds to a lighter tone with poems like "A Song of Rain" and "The Minstrel," and culminates poems of a more personal and emotional tone. 

Wilson has also written two fantasy novels that he has yet to publish.