… Her short story "Dog Children" was included in Best New American Voices 2005 and her short story "Above Asmara" won a Robie McCauley Award from StoryQuarterly and was subsequently included as a Special Mention in the 2009 Pushcart Prize Anthology. She was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fiction Fellowship at Stanford University, a Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, and a Sacatar Foundation Fellowship in Bahia, Brazil. She has an MFA from Mills College and has taught creat …

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Hello Writers, All are welcome.  We are a group of writers who  meet to discuss--lo and behold--writing.  Fiction Writers Workshop has expanded to three separate groups. The original--Fiction Writers' Read and Critique--meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month. Bring your work and share it for honest critique from fellow writers. On the 2nd and fourth Saturdays we meet for Story Engineers, a critique group of another order where we discuss a selected book on writing and critique each others' …