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Nina Hamberg

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Nina Hamberg was initially encouraged to write poetry in seventh grade by a teacher named Miss Baudelaire. She has been writing all her life, both for pleasure and profit. Hamberg studied creative writing at programs sponsored by Stanford University, Duke University, and the Squaw Valley Writers Community. She has been a marketing consultant, karate instructor, photographer, group home counselor, synagogue cleaning lady, insurance claims examiner, and receptionist on Park Avenue. Grip: A Memoir of Fierce Attractions is her first book

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Grip: A Memoir of Fierce Attractions

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