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Naomi Benaron won the 2010 Bellwether Prize for Fiction for her novel RUNNING THE RIFT, forthcoming from Algonquin books. She earned an MFA from Antioch University and an MS in earth sciences from Scripps Institute of Oceanography. She teaches online through UCLA Extension Writers' Program and the Afghan Women's Writing Project. An advocate for African refugees in her community, she has worked extensively with genocide survivor groups in Rwanda. She has won the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction and the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. She is also an Ironman triathlete." ...more

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Naomi Benaron My favorite fictional couple depends on the day I am asked. Today, I am thinking of Marie-Laure and Werner Pfenning from ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE. …moreMy favorite fictional couple depends on the day I am asked. Today, I am thinking of Marie-Laure and Werner Pfenning from ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE. Although they are not a couple in the traditional sense,(another reason I so love them) their lives are bound in a way that becomes both clear and urgent as the story progresses. They are both propelled forward on the wave of WW II history, they are are passionate, they are driven, and they are motivated by a strong sense of spiritual morality. They will always be with me.(less)
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“Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.”
Naomi Benaron, Running the Rift

“Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.”
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“In Europe, his contacts apologized and said there was nothing they could do. They would keep trying, but no one was listening. Rwanda had no oil or strategic interest, no diamonds or gold.”
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“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.”
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“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.”
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“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
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