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Goede, Will: - Will Goede lives in Vancouver and has published stories and articles in Capilano Review, Canadian Fiction Magazine, Windsor Review, Event, Saturday Night, Malahat Review, and Grain. He has published a novel, Quantrill, and a cycle of stories, Love in Beijing, a finalist for the B.C. Book Prize in Fiction, and The Man from Vancouver, a play broadcast on China's national radio for several years in the 1990s. Love in Beijing was short-listed for the Edith Wilson Prize in 1989. "Sleeping Arrangements" was published in Malahat Review and a finalist for Western Magazine Award; it was also the winner of the Federation of BC Writers' "Literary Writes X Contest" in 1996.Goede was born in Augusta, Wisconsin and served in the Korean War, worked in naval intelligence, studied English in Edinburgh, taughtin Rhode Island and Maine and received his Ph.D. in American Black Literature in California. He taught at the University of Victoria from 1966to 1971. In 1982 he went to China, where he taught for four years. He was a member of the first rock-and-roll band in the PRC, and the first jazz group in Beijing. Goede returned to the Far East in 1988, teaching in Jakarta, Indonesia, and in 1995 in Makassar, Sulawesi. He retired from college teaching in 2000.