Dale Dapkins is a 1968 psychology graduate of the University of Rochester. He lived in Turkey for two years with the Peace Corps making a movie for the Turkish Tourism Ministry in the late sixties. After apprenticing to an Armenian Oriental Rug dealer, he became an independent antique oriental rug expert/dealer. His first novel American Broccoli and Dr. Breast was published by Nefyn and Shaw in 1988. He won the Grand Prize in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition in 1999 . . . a blind read with thousands of entries from all over the world. And he won it again the following year. Also he...