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Lara Ehrlich

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Lara Ehrlich is the author of the short story collection Animal Wife (Red Hen Press, 2020), which won Red Hen’s Fiction Award, judged by Ann Hood. Lara lives in Connecticut with her husband and daughter.

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You're invited to the Animal Wife launch party!

Register for the virtual Animal Wife launch party on Sept 8 and I'll send you a pin!

Register here:

And send your registration receipt to Lara.Ehrlich@gmail.com.

I'll be joined in conversation at my hometown bookstore, Bank Square Books, in Mystic, CT, by Joy Baglio, the founder and director of the Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop.

The event will also feature live music by the Kat & Brad band who dr Read more of this blog post »

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Slaying the Mermaid: Women and the Culture of Sacrifice

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Quotes by Lara Ehrlich (?)

“In none of her lives will she be brilliant or famous or content. Her mediocrity will hound her through a kaleidoscope of futures.”
― Lara Ehrlich, Animal Wife

tags: expectations, fatalism, impostor-syndrome, mediocrity, parallel-universes, reality

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“She is eager to rewrite the pages. They are too grandiose, too preachy. She has come to appreciate short sentences.”
― Lara Ehrlich, Animal Wife

tags: brevity, editing, nuance, the-editing-process, writing

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