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Jill Kandel grew up in North Dakota. She has lived and worked in Zambia, Indonesia, England, and in her husband's native Netherlands.

Her first memoir, "So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian Village," (Autumn House Press) won both the Autumn House Press Nonfiction Award and the Sarton Women's Literary Award.

Her second memoir, "The Clean Daughter: A Cross-Continental Memoir, NDSU Press, April 2022 was selected by the Library of Congress as a Great Reads Book 2025! ...more

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Rattle Poetry Acceptance

So happy to have Timothy Green at Rattle Poetry contact me yesterday saying he wanted to publish my poem, Fatigue.

I’d just sent it in the week before! After waiting months, sometimes close to a year, to hear back from literary journals concerning my essays, this was quite the change!

I’ve been writing most of my life, but have only recently started to write poetry.

This is my FIRST POETRY ACCEPT

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	So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian Village 4.01 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 2015 — 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 Wonder Years: 40 Women over 40 on Aging, Faith, Beauty, and Strength by Leslie Leyland Fields (Goodreads Author), Jill Kandel (Goodreads Author), Charity Singleton Craig (Goodreads Author) 4.22 avg rating — 165 ratings — 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
	The Magic of Memoir: Inspiration for the Writing Journey by Linda Joy Myers (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brooke Warner (Editor), Jill Kandel (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.14 avg rating — 91 ratings — 2 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 Clean Daughter: A Cross-Continental Memoir 4.55 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2022	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
	Becoming: What Makes a Woman by Jill McCabe Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sibyl James (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Marilyn Bates (Contributor) 4.70 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	So Many Africas (Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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 Best Spiritual Writing 2012 (2011-09-27) by BK Loren, Jill Kandel (Goodreads Author), Philip Zaleski (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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