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Jennifer Lang

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American-French-Israeli hybrid; obsessed with identity, language, home, belonging

1995-today: stories in Parenting, Woman’s Day, Baltimore Review, Under the Sun, Barren Magazine, Citron Review, Coachella Review, Consequence Forum, NPR

MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts; former Assistant Editor at Brevity Journal

Yogini, practicing since 1995, teaching since 2003, leads YogaProse

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AWARDS for Landed:
*Winner of Best Middle-or-Late-in-Life Coming-of-Age, Zibby Awards 2025
*Gold Book Award Winner, Literary Titan 2024
*Finalist for Adult Nonfiction, Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2024

AWARDS for Places We Left Behind:
*Finalist for Autobiography/Memoir, Foreword Review
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