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The Good Life, a short novel by University of Arkansas at Monticello faculty member Dr. Mark Spencer and his wife, Rebecca, has been accepted for publication in the online literary journal Admit Two.

Spencer is a professor and dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at UAM. He has published two novels in print form – Love and Reruns in Adams County (Random House), and The Weary Motel (Backwaters Press), as well as two collections of short stories and over 100 articles and stories in various national and international journals. Spencer has received the Faulkner Society’s Faulkner Award for The Short Novel, the Omaha Prize for The Novel, the Bradshaw Book Award, the Cairn-St. Andrews Press Short Fiction Award, and four “Special Mentions” in Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. The Good Life is his first collaboration with his wife, Rebecca.

Rebecca Spencer is a homemaker, freelance photojournalist, and a newsletter correspondent for the Oklahoma chapter of the national charity Newborns in Need.

According to Spencer, The Good Life is the story of a 66-year-old farmer/school teacher/part-time moving man named Fowood, who reflects on the successes, disappointments, moral righteousness, and missed opportunities of his life while contemplating the meaning of a good life. The Good Life will be published in two to three installments in Admit Two beginning in January.