Dawn Raffel is an American writer. She has authored two

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collections, a novel, a memoir, and a biography. Her work has appeared in ''The Quarterly,'' ''

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'', edited by Diane Williams, ''

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,'' '' Conjunctions'', ''Open City'', ''Fence'', ''Guernica'', ''The Antioch Review'', ''The Mississippi Review'', ''

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'', ''The Anchor Book of New American Short Fiction'', ''Micro Fictions'', BOMB, and numerous other publications.

Works

* ''In the Year of Long Division'' (1995), a collection published by

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. One of the last books edited there by

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. * ''Carrying the Body'' (2002), a novel published by Scribner. * ''Further Adventures in the Restless Universe'' (2010), a collection published by

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. * ''The Secret Life of Objects'' (2012), an illustrated memoir published by Jaded Ibis. * ''The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies'' (2018), a biography published by

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Film

* ''The Myth of Drowning'', a film by Steven Richter, based on the short story of the same name

External links

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Guest fiction editor in ''Guernica'' magazine

"The Myth of Drowning," a short story in Guernica magazineInterview with Dawn Raffel in ''Big Other''

References

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