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Kyle Minor (born 1976) is an American writer. Born and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida, Minor lived in Indiana and Kentucky before settling in Columbus, Ohio. He was a graduate of The Ohio State University, where he was a three-time honoree in The Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Awards and a winner of Random House's Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers contest.

Minor has taught creative writing at various schools, including The Ohio State University, The University of Toledo, Capital University, and Gotham Writers Workshop. He is currently working on a novel and a work of narrative nonfiction, both set in the Haitian countryside.

His debut collection of short fiction, In the Devil's Territory, included the novella A Day Meant to Do Less, which was chosen by George Pelecanos for Houghton Mifflin's Best American Mystery Stories 2008 anthology. His stories and essays also appear in literary journals including Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, and Mid American Review.

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