First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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First Draft - Nell Freudenberger May 13, 2019

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Nell Freudenberger is the author of the novels Lost and Wanted, The Newlyweds, and The Dissident, and the story collection Lucky Girls, which won the PEN/Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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First Draft - Molly Dektar May 06, 2019

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Molly Dektar is the author of The Ash Family.

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First Draft - CJ Hauser Apr 29, 2019

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CJ Hauser teaches creative writing and literature at Colgate University. She is the author of the novel The From-Aways and her fiction has appeared in Tin House, Narrative Magazine, TriQuarterly, Esquire, Third Coast, and The Kenyon Review.

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First Draft - Erika Meitner Apr 22, 2019

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Erika Meitner was born and raised in Queens and Long Island, New York. She is the author of five books of poems: Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore, Ideal Cities, Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, Copia, and Holy Moly Carry Me. In addition to teaching creative writing at UVA, UW-Madison, and UC-Santa Cruz, she has worked as a dating columnist, an office temp, a Hebrew school instructor, a computer programmer, a systems consultant, a lifeguard, a documentary film production assistant, and a middle school teacher in the New York City public school system.

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First Draft - Cara Robertson Apr 15, 2019

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Cara Robertson is the author of The Trial of Lizzie Borden. She is an attorney whose writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, the Raleigh News and Observer, and the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. She was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford Law School. A former Supreme Court law clerk, she served as a legal adviser to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School

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First Draft - David Means Apr 08, 2019

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David Means is the author of several short story collections including Instructions for a Funeral, The Secret Goldfish, and The Spot and the novel, Hystopia.

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First Draft - Susan Orlean Apr 01, 2019

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Susan Orlean is a staff writer at The New Yorker and her books include Rin Tin Tin, The Orchid Thief, and The Library Book, among others.

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First Draft - Jessica Soffer Mar 25, 2019

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Jessica Soffer's work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Martha Stewart Living, Real Simple, Redbook, Saveur, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her bestselling novel, Tomorrow There Will be Apricots, was published in twelve countries.

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First Draft - Sophie Mackintosh Mar 18, 2019

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Sophie Mackintosh is the author of The Water Cure, which is on teh long list for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.

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First Draft - Eva Hagberg Fisher Mar 11, 2019

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Eva Hagberg Fisher is the author of How to be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship.

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