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Arleen Williams is a Seattle novelist, memoirist, and co-author of a dozen short books in easy English for adults. She teaches English as a Second Language at South Seattle College and has worked with immigrants and refugees for over three decades. To learn more, please visit www.arleenwilliams.com and www.notalkingdogspress.com. ...more

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	The Thirty-Ninth Victim 3.99 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Mom's Last Move: A Memoir 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walking Home 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ex-Mexican Wives Club: A Memoir 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I’m happy to invite you to a poetry reading – yes, I’ll bereading poetry. I’m working on a new memoir, this one written in narrativeverse. More on that in a future post.

For now, I hope you can join my dear friends and talented poets Miriam Bassuk and Pamela Hobart Carter, and me, for an evening ofpoetry (& pie). We will be the featured readers for PoetryBridge at C&P Coffee Company (5612 Californi

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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

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The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson

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“Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be confused. Be tired. Be depressed. Be annoyed. Don’t hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

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My daughter was living in Brooklyn one winter and complained of hiking through the endless snows to the subway for her commute to Manhattan. Then when the snows began to melt, the flooding was worse!

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