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Jill Kandel

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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!
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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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Around the World ...: Zambia 17 658 Jul 03, 2025 11:43AM  
J.R.R. Tolkien
“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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