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You can tell a lot about me by the books I have written.

My name is Burl E. Battersby and I write under the pen name B. Eugene B.  The decision to use a nom de plume speaks to who I am as an artist and what drives me to create.  It speaks to the change that occurred in my life which inspired me to become a writer.

For much of my childhood and most of my adult life I was an alcoholic.  I was fortunate in that I was a high-functioning alcoholic, (mostly) able to maintain a facade of normality; I was successful at work and had a great family that loved and supported me, but I struggled with alcohol abuse.  Then, on June 15th of 2012, I decided that if I didn’t stop I would lose everything I had.

The dual life that I had lived up to that point, always hiding behind a mask during my sober hours, gave me a unique sense of what can pass for reality and it taught me how to tell a story.  I learned that while these stories created a new reality for others, they also changed who I was.  Although this is not a healthy attribute when combined with addiction, it is a skill that, in the clarified world of sobriety, has empowered me to write in a voice that is genuine and true to who I am.  It is also a voice which others who have read my work have enjoyed reading.

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B. Eugene B.s' Artist Statement

Different forms of self are apparent in my art. My visual art is closely tied to my process of writing poetry, and these two forms of expression are considered the same child in my mind; not a closely related phenomenon, but an alternate form of the same creation.

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