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Jill Amber Chafin

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Jill Amber Chafin's work has appeared in The Personal Story Publishing Project and Motherfigure, and has been honored as a Finalist for the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, Honorable Mention in the New Millennium Writing Awards, and Third Place winner in the anthology America’s Next Author. Shaken is her debut novel and has recently been selected as a finalist for The Wishing Shelf Book Awards.

Jill lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with her husband and two children, where she works as a freelance writer, editor, and circus arts instructor.
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Remarkably Bright Creatures

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