{"id":16,"date":"2014-01-19T22:51:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T22:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/troyehlers.com\/blog\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2014-06-02T15:58:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:58:34","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/troyehlers.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Troy Ehlers<\/strong> is a fiction writer, originally from Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota. \u00a0He earned a B.S. in Finance at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and an MFA in Writing from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. \u00a0He was the founding editor of <em><strong>Minnetonka Review<\/strong><\/em> and interned at Milkweed Editions. \u00a0He has taught one semester as an adjunct professor at Concordia University, St. Paul. \u00a0His stories have been published in <em><strong>Quercus Review, Beloit Fiction Journal,<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>The Louisville Review.<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0His collection and novella in progress was a finalist for the <strong>James Jones First Novel Fellowship.<\/strong> \u00a0He has recently been named <strong><em>Crab Orchard Review&#8217;s<\/em> 2014 Jack Dyer Fiction Prize Winner,<\/strong> with publication of his story &#8220;Five Deaths of Ellie Marsh&#8221; forthcoming. \u00a0Also forthcoming is a story in the New Hampshire-based pulp fiction anthologies, <strong><em>Love Free or Die! <\/em><\/strong>and<strong><em> Love Free or Ride!<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0He&#8217;s currently working on a collection and two novels simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit my website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troyehlers.com\" target=\"_blank\">troyehlers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/troyehlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/317588_10150414165809245_195319618_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17\" src=\"https:\/\/troyehlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/317588_10150414165809245_195319618_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"317588_10150414165809245_195319618_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/troyehlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/317588_10150414165809245_195319618_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/troyehlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/317588_10150414165809245_195319618_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troy Ehlers is a fiction writer, originally from Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota. \u00a0He earned a B.S. in Finance at the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/troyehlers.com\/blog\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/troyehlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/troyehlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/troyehlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troyehlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troyehlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/troyehlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/troyehlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/troyehlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}