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Mary Rechner

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Mary Rechner is the author of Marrying Friends named Best Short Story Collection by a Portland Author in 2023 by Willamette Week, the story collection Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women named to the long list for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and the novella The Opposite of Wow published in the Hong Kong Review. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as New Letters, Harvard Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review, and Washington Square. Her criticism and essays have appeared in Litro, The Believer, Oregon Humanities, and the Oregonian. Treat is a word and music collaboration curated by Rechner and produced by Core Productions. She is the recipient of fellowships from Literary Arts an ...more

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	Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women 3.83 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2010 — 3 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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	Hot Springs 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005	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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