Dawn Raffel

UPCOMING READINGS

Tuesday, May 12th at 6:30pm
The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction
17 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017
I am reading with Sheila Kohler, Victoria Redel and Edra Ziesek

Sheila Kohler is the author of ten books of fiction. She won an O'Henry Prize in 1988 and 2008, as well as the Willa Cather prize in 1998, and was a fellow at the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library in 2003-4. Sheila teaches at Princeton University, Bennington College and the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction.

Dawn Raffel is the author of Carrying the Body and In the Year of Long Division. A new collection, Further Adventures in the Restless Universe, will be published in March 2010. She is currently Editor-at-Large at More magazine and an adjunct assistant professor in the MFA program at Columbia University.

Victoria Redel is the author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction including Loverboy, which was also turned into a film. Her latest novel The Border of Truth weaves the situation of refugees and a daughter's awakening to the history and secrets of her father's survival and loss. Redel is on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College and teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University.

Edra Ziesk is the author of The Trespasser, A Cold Spring, and Acceptable Losses. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, Arkansas Review, and Other Voices.

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

"Beyond All Blessing and Song, Praise and Consolation" in The Antioch Review, Summer '08

"Couer" in NOON, April '08

"North of the Middle" and "Steam" in the Brooklyn Rail, November '07

"No Place on Earth" in Opium, March '07

"Love" and "The Interruption" in The Rake, January '07 http://www.rakemag.com/

"Near Taurus," O, The Oprah Magazine, July '06

"Her Purchase"--Web Conjunctions http://www.conjunctions.com/webconj.htm

"The Alternate Palace"--"Lost" magazine http://www.lostmag.com/issue3/palace.php

"Flesh, Blood"--The Hunger Mountain Review (print)

"All Along the Silk Road"--Fence (print)

"Our Heaven"--The Mississippi Review Prize Anthology (print)

"Seven Spells"--Open City (print)

ABOUT THE NOVEL "CARRYING THE BODY"

@"Raffel's writing snatches the breath out of your body and engages you in untangling the mystery of this family."--USA Today
@"Extreme literature."--Publisher's Weekly
@"Exquisite prose and a keen unflinching eye for the subtleties of familial disintegration."--The Review of Contemporary Fiction
@"Dawn Raffel is a writer of genuine originality and integrity."--Robert Coover

ABOUT "IN THE YEAR OF LONG DIVISION"
@"A writer of obvious and extreme talent"--the LA Times
@"Raffel has the ability to turn the tiniest details into poetry."--Publisher's Weekly
@"As it has been with every new writer of intricate beauty and substance, so it must be with Dawn Raffel, a writer who is, in Gerard Manley Hopkins's words, 'spare, original, strange.' Here again is the joy of wonderment, of first discovery--a book to ponder, to read and reread, to share with other lovers of literature, to give as a gift--which is what In the Year of Long Division was to me."--Tillie Olsen

CONTACT ME:
Dawn@Raffel.name