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Jamie Wendt

Jamie Wendt is the author of the poet­ry col­lec­tion Fruit of the Earth, pub­lished by Main Street Rag Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny (2018) and win­ner of the 2019 Nation­al Fed­er­a­tion of Press Women Book Award. Her poet­ry has been pub­lished in var­i­ous lit­er­ary jour­nals and antholo­gies, includ­ing Fem­i­nine Ris­ing: Voic­es of Pow­er and Invis­i­bil­i­ty, Lilith, Raleigh Review, Min­er­va Ris­ing, Third Wednes­day, and Saranac Review. Her essays and book reviews have been pub­lished in Green Moun­tains Review, the For­ward, Lit­er­ary Mama, and oth­ers. She holds an MFA from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Nebras­ka Oma­ha. She teach­es high school Eng­lish and lives in Chica­go with her hus­band and two children.

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The Daugh­ter of Auschwitz: My Sto­ry of Resilience, Sur­vival and Hope
Tova Fried­man
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Elisa Ber­nick
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Out of Nowhere: Poems
Susan Comni­nos
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The Dis­card­ed Life
Adam Kirsch
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Atom­ic Anna
Rachel Baren­baum
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Riva Lehrer
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Asy­lum: A per­son­al, his­tor­i­cal, nat­ur­al inquiry in 103 lyric sections
Jill Bialosky
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Poet­ry
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Adam Mans­bach
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The Lamps of History
Michael Sandler, Diane Kistner (Editor)
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I Wish My Father
Lesléa New­man
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Spilt Milk
Court­ney Zoffness
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Poet­ry
The Minor Virtues
Lynn Levin
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Don’t Touch the Bones
Julia Kolchin­sky Dasbach 
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The World That We Knew: A Novel
Alice Hoff­man
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Devi­a­tion
Luce D'Eramo; Anne Milano Appel,trans.

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‘Fairy-Tale Log­ic’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Alice Hoffman

Jamie Wendt
August 31, 2020
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Claude and Mar­cel: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Rupert Thomson

Jamie Wendt
March 2, 2020
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Poet­ry
Fruit of the Earth
Jamie Wendt

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