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Avra Wing

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in New York, The United States

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Young Adult, Fiction, Poetry

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After Isaac, my new young adult novel, won a gold medal for YA fiction in the 2013 Moonbeam Awards for Children's Books. Publishers Weekly called it "an emotionally complex story of life, love, grief, and recovery." My first novel, Angie, I Says, a New York Times notable book, was made into the movie Angie starring Geena Davis and James Gandolfini. I have also published essays in the Times. My collection of poems, Recurring Dream, won the 2011 Pecan Grove Press chapbook competition, and I have published poems in several journals, including Hanging Loose and Michigan Quarterly Review. For 10 years I was an adjunct professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, and for the past four years I have been a writing workshop leader for the ...more

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	Angie, I Says 3.38 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1991 — 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
	After Isaac 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2013 — 4 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 Deaf Poets Society, Issue 3: January 2017 by Ava C. Cipri (Editor), Cyrée Jarelle Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sarah Katz (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2017	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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	Recurring Dream it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	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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